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PREFACE 



In this Handy Dictionary of Prose Quota- 
tions the compiler has sought to put into a book 
of convenient size for ready use brief extracts from 
the sayings of many writers on topics which inter- 
est the reading and thinking public. The selec- 
tions cover a wide range, from the precepts of the 
Chinese philosopher Confucius to the latest utter- 
ances of Senator Hoar on '• Imperialism," and of 
Prince von Bismarck on the destiny of the United 
States. The extracts number 2138, and are chosen 
from the writings of 368 authors/chiefly American 
and British. In addition to the interest in the 
topics illustrated, it is believed this little volume 
will give the reader a good idea of the force 
of the principal words of our language as em- 
ployed by the masters of English literature. Many 
large collections of well-established authority have 
been drawn from, especially the very full " Dic- 
tionary of Prose Quotations," by Anna L. Ward 
(published by Messrs. T. Y. Crowell & Co.). Re- 
cent authors have been consulted, and such selec- 
tions made as were thought suitable to illustrate 
the topics under consideration. To his predeces- 

iii 



IV PREFACE. 

sors in this line the compiler is under obligation, 
and they will receive the thanks therefor of one 
whose labors as a proofreader for many years 
have been lightened by their work. The Index 
of Authors gives the birthplace, and elate of birth 
and death, of the writers. The Index to Quota- 
tions indicates the leading thought of the extract. 
These indexes, which are full and complete, have 
been carefully prepared by Mrs. Grace E. Powers, 
who has also rendered valuable assistance in pre- 
paring the work for the press and in reading the 
proofs . 

G. W. P. 

Dokchestek, Mass., July y 1901. 



HANDY DICTIONARY OF PROSE 
QUOTATIONS. 



A. 

Ability. 

As we advance in life, we learn the limits of 
our abilities. Froude : Short Studies on Great 

1 Subjects. Education. 

There is great ability in knowing how to con- 
ceal one's ability. 

2 La Rochefoucauld : Reflections. ISTo. 245. 

Nothing has such power to broaden the mind as 
the ability to investigate systematically and truly 
all that comes under thy observation in life. 

3 Marcus Aurelius : Meditations, iii., 11. 

Abundance. 

Unto every one that hath shall be given, and he 
shall have abundance ; but from him that hath not 
shall be taken away even that which he hath. 

4 New Testament: Mark xxv. 29. 

Acquaintance. 

If a man is worth knowing at all, he is worth 
knowing well. 

5 Alexander Smith : Dreamthorp, 

1 



2 DICTIONARY OF t>ROSE QUOTATIONS. 

Action. 

A perfect feeling eventuates in some form of 
action. Action is the right outlet of emotion. 

6 Henry Ward Beecher: Proverbs from 

. Plymouth Pulpit. 

Every man feels instinctively that all the beauti- 
ful sentiments in the world weigh less than a 
single lovely action. 

7 Lowell : Rousseau and the Sentimentalists. 

What the Puritans gave the world was not 
thought, but action. 

8 Wendell Phillips: Speech, Dec. 21, 1855. 

When Demosthenes was asked what was the 
first part of oratory, he answered, " Action; " and 
which was the second, he replied, << Action ; " and 
which was the third, he still answered, " Action." 

9 Plutarch: Lives of the Ten Orators. 

Actors. 

Oh, there be players that I have seen play, and 
heard others praise, and that highly, not to speak 
it profanely, that neither having the accent of 
Christians, nor the gait of Christian, pagan, nor 
man, have so strutted and bellowed, that I have 
thought some of Nature's journeymen had made 
men, and not made them well, they imitated hu- 
manity so abominably. 

10 Shaks. : Hamlet, Act iii., Sc. 2. 

Admiration. 

Great men are still admirable ; I say there is, at 
bottom, nothing else admirable. 

11 Carlyle : Heroes and Hero Worship. 



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That wonderful book, while it obtains admira- 
tion from the most fastidious critics, is loved by 
those who are too simple to admire it. 

12 Macaulay : On Bunyan's Pilgrim' s 

Progress, 1831. 
Admiration is an art which we must learn. 

13 George P. Upton: Memories. (Trans- 

lated from the German.) 
Adversity. 

Adversity is sometimes hard upon a man ; but 
for one man who can stand prosperity there are a 
hundred that will stand adversity. 

l-i Carlyle : Heroes and Hero Worship. 

There is no education like adversity. 

15 Disraeli (Earl of Beaconsfield) : 

Endymio?i, Ch. 61. 

In the adversity of our best friends we always 

find something which is not wholly displeasing to us. 

16 La Rochefoucauld : Reflections. No. 15. 

Advice. 

Had I been present at the creation, I would have 
given some useful hints for the better ordering of 
the universe. 

17 Alphonso the Wise. 

The advice that is wanted is generally unwel- 
come, and that which is not wanted is evidently 
impertinent. 

18 Dr. Johnson: Letters to and from the 

Late Samuel Johnson. 

He who gives advice to a self-conceited man 
stands himself in need of counsel from another. 

19 Saadi: The Gulistan, Ch. 8. Rules for 

Conduct in Life. No. 27. 



4 DICTIONARY OF PROSE QUOTATIONS. 

Affectation. 

Affectation is as necessary to the mind, as dress 
is to the body. 

20 Hazlitt: Characteristics. No. 157. 

Affections. 

Our affections are our life. We live by these. 
They supply our warmth. 

21 Channing: Note-book. Friendship. 

Set your affections on things above, not on things 
on the earth. 

22 New Testament: Colossians iii. 2. 

Age. 

Alonso of Aragon was wont to say in commen- 
dation of age, that age appears to be best in four 
things, — old wood best to barn, old wine to drink, 
old friends to trust, and old authors to read. 

23 Bacon: Apothegms. No. 97. 

Every age has its pleasures, its style of wit, and 
its own ways. 

24 Boileau: The Art of Poetry, Can. iii., 374. 

Age . . . is a matter of feeling, not of years . 

25 George William Curtis : True and I. 

Some smack of age in vou, some relish of the 
saltness of time. 

26 Shaks. : 2 Henry IV., Act i., Sc. 2. 

Ambition. 

Ambition can creep as well as soar. The pride 
of no person in a nourishing condition is more 
justly to be dreaded than that of him who is mean 
and cringing under a doubtful and un prosperous 
fortune. Burke: Letters on a Begicide Peace. 

27 Letter iii. 1797. 



DICTIONARY OF PROSE QUOTATIONS. 5 

Ambition has its disappointments to sour us, but 
never the good fortune to satisfy us ; its appetite 
grows keener by indulgence, and all we can 
gratify it with at present serves but the more to 
inflame its insatiable desires. 

28 Bexjamix Fraxklix : On True Happiness. 

Ambition is of a higher and more heroic strain 
than avarice. Its objects are nobler, and the 
means by which it attains its ends less mechan- 
ical. Hazlitt : Table Talk. Second Series, 

29 Ft. L, Essay x. 

America. 

If any one attempts to haul down the American 
flag, shoot him on the spot. 

30 Johx A. Dix : An Official Despatch, 

Jan. 29, 1861. 

America has furnished to the world the charac- 
ter of Washington. And if our American institu- 
tions had done nothing- else, that alone would have 
entitled them to the respect of mankind. 

31 Daxiel Webster : Completion of Bunker 

Hill Monument, June 17, 1843. 

I was born an American ; I will live an Ameri- 
can ; I shall die an American. 

32 Daxiel Webster: Speech, July 17, 1850. 

Amiability. 

Amiableness is the object of love, the scope and 
end is to obtain it, for whose sake we love, and 
which our mind covets to enjoy. 

33 Burtox : Anatomy of Melancholy, 

Ft. Hi., Sec. L, Mem. 1, Subs. 2. 



6 DICTIONARY OF PROSE QUOTATIONS. 

Amity. 

With him who knocks at the door of peace, seek 
not hostility. 

34 Saadi: The Gulistan, Ch. 8. Rules for 

Conduct in Life. No. 14. 

Amusement. 

Amusement to an observing mind is study. 

35 Disraeli (Earl of Beaconsfield) : 

Contarini Fleming, Pt. i., Ch. 23. 
I am a great friend to public amusements, for 
they keep people from vice. 

36 Dr. Johnson: BosivelVs Life of Johnson, 

II. 169. 
Ancestry. 

A man who has ancestors is like a representa- 
tive of the past. 

37 Bulwer-Lytton : The Lady of Lyons, 

Act ii., Sc. 1. 
Conceal not the meanness of thy family, nor 
think it disgraceful to be descended from peas- 
ants ; for when it is seen that thou art not thyself 
ashamed, none will endeavor to make thee so. 

38 Cervantes: Don Quixote, Pt. ii., Ch. 43. 

(Jarvis, Translator.) 
Our ancestors are very good kind of folks ; but 
they are the last people I should choose to have a 
visiting acquaintance with. 

39 Sheridan: The Rivals, Act iv., Sc. 1. 
Think of your ancestors and yonr posterity. 

40 Tacitus: Agricola, 32. 

Anger. 

Anjrer is a bow that will shoot sometimes where 
another feeling will not. 

41 Henry Ward Beecher: Life Thoughts. 



DICTIONARY OF PROSE QUOTATIONS. 7 

The flame of anger, bright and brief, sharpens 
the barb of Love. 

42 Landor: Miscellaneous, LXVI. 

The anger of lovers renews the strength of love. 

43 Publius Syrus: Maxim 24. 

Angling. 

Angling is somewhat like poetry, — men are to 
be born so. 

44 Izaak Walton: The Complete Angler, 

Pt. i., Ch. 1. 

Annals. 

Happy the people whose annals are blank in 
history-books. 

45 Carlyle : Life of Frederick the Great, 

Bk. xvi., Ch. 1. 

Antipathy. 

There is one species of terror which those who 
are unwilling to suffer the reproach of cowardice 
have wisely dignified with the name of antipathy. 

46 Dr. Johnson: Rambler. No. 126. 

Antiquity. 

Nothing is old but the mind. 

47 Emerson : Letters and Social Aims. 

Progress of Culture. 

Anxiety. 

There is much unnecessary anxiety in the world, 
which is apt too hastily to calculate the conse- 
quences of any unforeseen event, quite forgetting 
that, acute as it is in observation, the world, where 
the future is concerned, is generally wrong. 

48 Disraeli (Earl of Beacons field) : 

Lothair, Ch. 86. 



8 DICTIONARY OF PROSE QUOTATIONS. 

Apologies. 

Apologizing, — a very desperate habit, — one 
that is rarely cured. Apology is only egotism 
wrong side out. Nine times out of ten, the first 
thing a man's companion knows of his shortcom- 
ings is from his apology. 

49 Holmes: The Professor at the Breakfast- 

Table, Ch. 6. 

Appearance. 

If appearances are deceitful, then they do not 
deserve any confidence when they assert what ap- 
pears to them to be true. 

50 Diogenes Laertius : Pyrrho, xi. 
Judge not according to the appearance. 

51 New Testament: John viii. 24. 

Appetite. • 

My appetite comes to me while eating. 

52 Montaigne: Bk. iii., Ch. ix., Of Vanity. 

Put a knife to thy throat, if thou be a man given 
to appetite. 

53 Old Testament : Proverbs xxiii. 2. 

Applause. 

Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end 
and aim of weak ones. 

54 Colton: Lacon. 

Apprehension. 

It is worse to apprehend than to suffer. 

55 La BiiUYfeRE : Characters. Of Man. 
Tn apprehension how like a god ! 

56 Shaks. : Hamlet, Act ii., Sc. 2. 

Arbiter. 

His own character is the arbiter of every one's 
fortune. 

57 Publius Syrus : Maxim 283. 



DICTIONARY OF PROSE QUOTATIONS. 9 

Architecture. 

Great edifices, like great mountains, are the 
work of ages. 

58 Victor Hugo: Notre Dame, Bk. iii., Ch. 1. 

Architecture is a creation of the human intellect, 
adding to the stores of beauty in the world. 

59 Thomas Starr King : The While Hills. 

Lake Winnipiseogee. 

Architecture is the art which so disposes and 
adorns the edifices raised by man for whatsoever 
uses, that the sio-ht of them contributes to his 
mental health, power, and pleasure. 

60 Ruskin : The Seven Lamps of Arch., Ch. 1. 

Argument. 

A knock-down argument : 'tis but a word and 
a blow. 

61 Dryden : Amphitryon, Acti., Sc. 1. 

There is no good In arguing with the inevitable. 

62 Lowell: Democracy. Address , Bir- 

mingham, Eng., Oct. 6, 1884. 

The truth is always the strongest argument. 

63 Sophocles: Phcedra, Frag. 737. 

Aristocracy. 

Natural aristocracy is the eminence of men over 
their fellows in real mind and soul. 

6-i Henry Ward Beecher : Proverbs from 

Plymouth Pulpit. 

A social life which worships money, and pursues 
social distinction as its aim, is, in spirit and in fact, 
an aristocracy. 

65 J. G. Holland: Plain Talks on Familiar 

Subjects. II. Fashion. 



10 DICTIONARY OF PROSE QUOTATIONS. 

Arms. 

If I were an American, as I am an Englishman, 
while a foreign troop was landed in my country I 
never would lay down my arms, — never ! never ! 
never ! 

66 William Pitt, Earl of Chatham: 

Speech, Nov. 18, 1777. 
It behooves a prudent person to make trial of 
everything before arms. 

67 Terence: Eunuchus, Act iv., Sc. 7, 19. 

Art. 

Art can never give the rules that make an art. 

68 Burke : The Sublime and Beautiful, 

1756. Pt. i., Sec. 19. 

Art is an absolute mistress ; she will not be co- 
quetted with or slighted ; she requires the most 
entire self-devotion, and she repays with grand 
triumphs. 

69 Charlotte Cushman : Charlotte Cushman 

(Arnericcm Actors Series), Ch. 10. 
The conscious utterance of thought by speech or 
action, to any end, is art. 

70 Emerson : Society and Solitude. Art. 
Art is higher than nations, older than many 

centuries. 

71 Higginson: Atlantic Essays. A Plea 

for Culture. 1867. 
Art is nothing more than the shadow of human- 
ity. Henry James : Lectures and Miscellanies. 

72 Lect. iii. Universality in Art. 
The beautiful is the most useful in art ; but the 

sublime in art is the most helpful to morals, for it 
elevates the mind. 

73 Joubert: Pensees. No. 326. (Attwell, Jr.) 



DICTIONARY OF PROSE QUOTATIONS. 11 

Art does not represent things falsely, but truly 
as they appear to mankind. * 

74 Ruskin : The Stones of Venice. The Fall, 

Ch. 2. 
Artists. 

Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and 
paints his own nature into his pictures. 

75 Henry Ward Beecher: Proverbs from 

Plymouth Pulpit. 

He is the greatest artist who has embodied, in 
the sum of his works, the greatest number of the 
greatest ideas. 

76 Ruskin : Modem Painters, Pt. L, Sec. i., 

Ch. 2. 
Ascent. 

The ascents from particular to general are all 
successive, and each step of the ascent requires 
time and labor. 

77 John Stuart Mill: System of Logic. 

Aspersion. 

There, sir, an attack upon my language ! What 
do you think of that? An aspersion upon my 
parts of speech ! 

78 Sheridan: The Rivals, Act iii., Sc. 3. 

Aspiration. 

Aspiration sees only one side of every question ; 
possession many. 

79 Lowell: Among My Books. Ne?v Eng- 

land Two Centuries Ago. 
Assassination. 

Assassination has never changed the history of 
the world. 

80 Disraeli (Earl of Beaconsfield) : 

Speech, May, 1865. 



12 DICTIONARY OF PROSE QUOTATIONS. 

Assault. 

I would have thought her spirit had been invin- 
cible against all assaults of affection. 

81 Shaks. : Much Ado, Act ii., Sc. 3. 

Assent. 

Assent I have described to be a mental assertion ; 
in its very nature, then, it is of the mind, and not 
of the lips. 

82 John H. Newman : Grammar of Assent. 

Assertion. 

The capacity of jelly to guide forces, which 
Professor Huxley says is a fact of the profoundest 
significance to him, is not a fact at all, but merely 
an assertion. 

83 Beale: Protoplasm, p. 85. 

Assiduity. 

By marvellous assiduity he [Pickering] was able 
to lead two lives, one producing the fruits of earth, 
the other those of immortality. 

84 Charles Sumner: Orations, i., 140. 

Association. 

There are many objects of great value to man, 
which cannot be attained by unconnected individ- 
uals, but must be attained, if attained at all, by 
association. 

85 Daniel Webster : Speech at Pittsburg, 

July, 1833. 
Assumption. 

The assumption of a final cause in the structure 
of each part of animals and plants is as inevitable 
as the assumption of a final cause for every event. 

86 Whewell: Novanum Organ. Renovatum. 



DICTIONARY OF PROSE QUOTATIONS. 13 

Assurance. 

God Almighty cannot prevent me from winning 
a victory to-day. 

87 Gen. Joseph Hooker : Letter to President 

Abraham Lincoln, the day previous 
to the fight at Chancellor sville. 

Atheist. 

Though a man declares himself an atheist, it in 
no way alters his obligations. 

88 % Henry Ward Beecher: Life Thoughts. 

Athens. 

Wherever literature consoles sorrow or assuages 
pain ; wherever it brings gladness to eyes which 
fail with wakefulness and tears, and ache for the 
dark house and the long sleep, — there is exhibited 
in its noblest form the immortal influence of Athens. 

89 Macaulay : On MitforcVs History of 

Greece, 1824. 
Attachment. 

Cromwell had to determine whether he would 
put to hazard the attachment of his party, the at- 
tachment of his army, ... to save a prince whom 
no engagement could bind. 

90 Macaulay: History of England, Ch. 1. 

Attention. 

A trained pianist will play a new piece of music 
at sight, and perhaps have so much attention to 
spare that he can talk with you at the same time. 

91 John Fiske: Excurs. of an Evolutionist. 

Attestation. 

The applause of the crowd makes the head 
giddy, but the attestation of a reasonable man 
makes the heart glad. 

92 Steele: Spectator. No. 188. 



14 DICTIONARY OF PROSE QUOTATIONS. 

Attitude. 

When one maintains his proper attitude in life, 
he does not long after externals. What would 
you have, O man ? 

93 Epictetus: Discourses, Ch. 21. 

Attraction. 

Setting the attraction of my good parts aside, I 
have no other charm. 

94 Shaks. : Mer. W. of W., Act ii., Sc. 2. 

Attribution. 

His [God's] relative personality is shadowed 
forth by the attribution to him of love, anger, and 
other human feelings and sentiments. 

95 Sir John W. Dawson : Origin of the World. 

Attrition. 

These were people trained by attrition with 
man}' influences. 

96 E. S. Phelps: Beyond the Gates. 

Audacity. 

Stubborn audacity is the last refuge of guilt. 

97 Dr. Johnson: Works. IX. 115. (Eel. 1825.) 

Augmentation. 

He does smile his face into more lines than are in 
the new map with the augmentation of the Indies. 

98 Shaks. : Tw. Night, Act iii., Sc. 2. 

Austerity. 

There is no show of mercy in him. He carried 
his austerity beyond the bounds of humanity. 

99 E. P. Whipple : Essays and Reviews, i., 20. 

Authenticity. 

We compare the narrative with the account of 
the times when it was composed and are satisfied 
with the authenticity of its leading anecdotes. 

100 Milman : Latin Christianity, i., 3. 



DICTIONARY OF PROSE QUOTATIONS. 15 

Authors. 

Writers, especially when they act in a body, and 
in one direction, have great influence on the public 
mind. Burke : Reflections on the Revolution in 

101 France. 

Every author, in some degree, portrays himself 
in his works, even be it against his will. 

102 Goethe : The Poet's Year. 

The chief glory of every people arises from its 
authors. 

103 Dr. Johnson: Works. V. 49. (Ed. 1825.) 

Authors 1 lives in general are not uniform, they 
are strangely checkered by vicissitudes ; and even 
were the outward circumstances uniform, the in- 
ward struggles must still be various. 

104 George Henry Lewes : The Spanish 

Drama, Ch. 2. 

Autocracy. 

Man's will, that great seat of freedom, that with 
a kind of autocracy and supremacy within itself 
commands its own actions. 

105 Robert South: Sermons, vii., 1. 

Autumn. 

Magnificent Autumn ! He comes not like a pil- 
grim, clad in russet weeds. He comes not like a 
hermit, clad in gray. But he comes like a war- 
rior, with the stain of blood upon his brazen mail. 
His crimson scarf is rent. His scarlet banner 
drips with gore. His step is like a Hail upon the 
threshing-floor. 

106 Longfellow : Prose Works. Appendix II. 

The Blank Book of a Country School- 
master. XVII. Autumn. 



16 DICTIONARY OF PROSE QUOTATIONS. 

Availability. 

We do not choose our oivn candidate, no, nor 
any other man's first choice, — but only the avail- 
able candidate, whom perhaps no man loves. 

107 Emerson: Miscellanies, p. 401. 

Avarice. 

Avarice, or the desire of gain, is a universal pas- 
sion, which operates at all times, at all places, and 
upon all persons. 

108 Hume: Essays. XIII. Of the Rise and 

the Progress of the Arts and Sciences. 
Aversion. 

Nothing is stronger than aversion. 

109 Wycherley : The Gentleman Dancing- 

Master, Act i., Sc. 1. 
Awkwardness. 

God may forgive sins, he said, but awkwardness 
has no forgiveness in heaven or earth. 

110 Emerson : Society and Solitude. 

Azure. 

A little speck of azure has widened in the west- 
ern heavens. 

111 Hawthorne: Twice-Told Tales, Ch. 1. 

B. 

Babble. 

Making merry in odd tones, and a babble of 
outlandish words. 

112 Hawthorne: Old Manse, Ch. 2. 

Bachelor. 

When I said I would die a bachelor, I did not 
think I should live till I were married. 

113 Shaks. : Much Ado, Act ii., Sc. 3. 



DICTIONARY OF PROSE QUOTATIONS. 17 

Bachelorhood. 

Keeping in bachelorhood those least likely to be 
long-lived. 

114 Herbert Spencer: Study of Sociology. 

Backbiters. 

Satirists describe the a^e, and backbiters assign 
their descriptions to private men. 

115 Steele: Taller. No. 24. 

Backbone. 

The civilization is cheap and weak which has 
not the backbone of conscience in it. 

116 James Freeman Clarke: Self-Culture. 

Backsliding. 

Our backslidings are many; we have sinned 
against thee. 

117 Old Testament: Jeremiah xiv. 7. 

Backwards. 

There is a period of life when we go backwards 
as we advance. 

118 Rousseau: Emile, 1. ii. 

Balancing. 

Though I am well satisfied that it is not in my 
power to balance accounts with my Maker, I am 
resolved, however, to turn all my endeavors that 
way. 

119 Addison: Spectator. 

Ballads. 

Homer himself must beg if he want means, and 
as by report sometimes he did 4t go from door to 
door and sing ballads, with a company of boys 
about him.'" 

120 Burton: Anatomy of Melancholy , Pt. L, 

Sec. ii., Mem. 4, Subs. 7. 



18 DICTIONARY OF PROSE QUOTATIONS. 

I know a very wise man that believed that if a 
man were permitted to make all the ballads, he 
need not care who should make the laws of a 
nation. 

121 Andrew Fletcher :. Letter to the Mar- 

quis of Montrose, the Earl of Rothes, etc. 

Balm. 

Is there no balm in Gilead ? Is there no physi- 
cian there ? 

122 Old Testament : Jeremiah viii. 22. 

Balsam. 

Is this the balsam that the usuring senate pours 
into captain's wounds ? 

123 Shaks. : Timon of A., Act iii., Sc. 5. 

Banners. 

Terrible as an army with banners. 

124 Old Testament: S. of Solomon, vi. 4, 10. 

Battle. 

What a charming thing's a battle ! 

125 Isaac Bickerstaff: Recruiting Ser- 

jeant, Sc. 4. 
Beards. 

He that hath a beard is more than a youth, and 
he that hath no beard is less than a man. 

126 Shaks. : Much Ado, Act ii., Sc. 1. 
Sir, you have the most insinuating manner, but 

indeed you should get rid of that odious beard — 
one might as well kiss a hedgehog. 

127 Sheridan: The Duenna, Act ii., Sc. 2. 

Beauty. 

Beauty is based on reason. 

128 Amiel: Journal, May 23, 1863. 

Beauty without grace is the hook without the 
bait. Beauty, without expression, tires. 

129 Emerson : Conduct of Life. Beauty. 



DICTIONARY OF PROSE QUOTATIONS. 19 

Beauty is a welcome guest everywhere. 

130 Goethe: Elective Affinities, Pt. i., Ch. 4. 
Does not beauty confer a benefit upon us, even 

by the simple fact of being beautiful ? 

131 Victor Hugo: The Toilers of the Sea, 

Pt. i., Bk. iii., Ch. 1. 

Whatever is in any way beautiful hath its source 
of beauty in itself, and is complete in itself ; praise 
forms no part of it. So it is none the worse nor 
the better for being praised. 

132 Marcus Aurelius: Meditations, iv., 20. 
If we can perceive beauty in everything of God's 

doing, we may argue that we have reached the 
true perception of its universal laws. 

133 Buskin: Modern Painters, Pt. iii., Ch. 3. 

Beauty alone confers happiness on all, and under 
its influence every being forgets that he is limited. 

134 Schiller: Essays, JEsthetical and 

Philosophical. Letter xxvii. 
The worship of beauty, though beauty be itself 
transformed and incarnate in shapes diverse with- 
out end, must be simple and absolute, hence only 
must the believer expect profit or reward. 

135 Swinburne : Essays and Studies. Notes 

on Some Pictures of 1868. 
Beginning. 

As the proverb says, ' a good beginning is half 
the business,' and < to have begun well ' is praised 
by all. 

136 Plato: Laws, vi., 2. (Stephens.) 
Behavior. 

There is nothing settled in manners, but the laws 
of behavior yield to the energy of the individual. 

137 Emerson: Essays. Manners. 



20 DICTIONARY OF PROSE QUOTATIONS. 

Belief. 

No iron chain, nor outward force of any kind, 
could ever compel the soul of man to believe or to 
disbelieve : it is his own indefeasible right, that 
judgment of his ; he will reign and believe there 
by the grace of God alone ! 

138 Carlyle: Heroes and Hero Worship. 

The Hero as a Priest. 
Benevolence. 

Disinterestedness is the divine notion of per- 
fection ; disinterested benevolence is the supreme 
ideal. 

139 Henry Ward Beecher: Proverbs 

from Plymouth Pulpit. 

Benevolence is the tranquil habitation of man, 
and righteousness is his straight path. 

140 Mencius: Works, Bk. iv., Pt. L, Ch. 10. 
Bible. 

The Bible is the great family chronicle of the 
Jews. 

141 Heine : Wit, Wisdom, and Pathos. From 

the << Travel-Pictures, Italy." 
The English Bible, — a book which if every- 
thing else in our language should perish, would 
alone suffice to show the whole extent of its beauty 
and power. 

142 Macaulay: On John Dryden, 1828. 

The Bible is a book of faith, and a book of doc- 
trine, and a book of morals, and a book of religion, 
of special revelation from God; but it is also a 
book which teaches man his own individual re- 
sponsibility, his own dignity, and his equality with 
his fellow-man. 

143 Daniel Webster: Speech, Charlestown, 

Mass., June 17, 1843. 



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Biography. 

There is no kind of writing, which has truth 
and instruction for its main object, so interesting 
and popular, on the whole, as biography. 

144 William H. Prescott : Biographical 
and Critical Miscellanies. Sir Walter Scott. 

Birds. 

Never took for birds of this year in the nests of 
the last. 

145 Cervantes: Don Quixote, Pt. ii., Ch. 74. 
A bird of the air shall carry the voice, and that 

which hath wings shall tell the matter. 

146 Old Testament : Ecclesiastes x. 20. 

Blessings. 

Blessings may appear under the shape of pains, 
losses, and disappointments, but let him have 
patience, and he will see them in their proper 
figure. 

147 Addison: The Guardian. No. 117. 

Blood. 

Blood of the martyrs is the seed of the Church. 

148 Tertullian: Apologeticus, c. 50. 
Blushes. 

Better a blush in the face than a blot in the 
heart. 

149 Cervantes: Don Quixote, Pt. ii., Bk. 

iii., Ch. 44. (Jarvis, Translator.) 
Boasting, 

Boast not thyself of to-morrow ; for thou know- 
est not what a day may bring forth. 

150 Old Testament: Proverbs xxvii. 1. 

Bone. 

It will not out of the flesh that is bred in the bone. 

151 John Heywood : Proverbes, Pt. ii., Ch. 8. 



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Books. 

Books are the legacies that a °Teat genius leaves 
to mankind, which are delivered down from srenera- 
tion to generation, as presents to the posterity of 
those who are yet unborn. 

152 Addison: The Spectator. No. 166. 
There is no time in life when books do not in- 
fluence a man. 

153 "Walter Besant: Books Which Have 

Influenced Me. 
The true university of these days is a collection 
of books. 

154 Carltle : Heroes and Hero Worship. 

The Hero as Man of Letters. 
There are men that will make you books, and 
turn them loose into the world, with as much dis- 
patch as they would do a dish of fritters. 

155 Cervantes: Don Quixote, Pt. ii., Ch. 3. 

Books are the best things, well used: abused, 
among the worst. 

156 Emerson: Miscellanies. The American 

Scholar. Cambridge, Mass.. Aug. 31. 1837. 

Oh that mine adversary had written a book. 

157 Old Testament: Job xxxi. 35. 

Bores. 

All men are bores, except when we want them. 
There never was but one man whom I would trust 
with mv latch-kev. 

158 " Holmes: The Autocrat, Ch. 1. 
Borrowing. 

If you would know the value of money, go and 
try to borrow some, for he that goes a-borrowing 
goes a- sorrowing. 

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Boys. 

Of all animals the boy is the most unmanage- 
able, inasmuch as he has the fountain of reason 
in him not yet regulated. 

160 Plato: Laws, vii., 14. (Stephens, p. 

808, D.) 

When one asked him [Agesilaus] what boys 
should learn, " That," said he, " which they shall 
use when men." 

161 Plutarch: Laconic Apophthegms of 

Agesilaus the Great. 
Brains. 

The brain may devise laws for the blood, but a 
hot temper leaps o'er a cold decree. 

162 Shaks. : M. of Venice, Acti., Sc. 2. 

Brawling, 

It is better to dwell in a corner of the housetop 
than with a brawling woman in a wide house. 

163 Old Testament: Proverbs xxi. 9. 

Bravery. 

A brave man inspires others to heroism, but his 
own courage is not diminished when it enters into 
other souls : it is stimulated and invigorated. 

164 Washington Gladden: Things Old 

and New. ILL. Nature and Spirit. 
Bread. 

Cast thy bread upon the waters ; for thou shalt 
find it after many days. 

165 Old Testament: Ecclesiastes xi. 1. 

I won't quarrel with my bread and butter. 

166 Swift: Polite Conversation, Dialogue \. 

Bread is the staff of life. 

167 Swift: A Tale of a Tub. Preface. 



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Breath. 

Spare your breath to cool your porridge. 

168 Rabelais: Bk. v., Ch. 28. 
Bribery. 

In ray opinion it is less shameful for a king to be 
overcome by force of arms than by bribery. 

169 Sallust : Jugurtha, ex. 

Buffoonery. 

Buffoonery is often want of wit. 

170 La Bruyere : Characters. Of Society 

and Conversation {Rome, Translator). 
Bulwarks. 

Equal and exact justice to all men, of whatever 
state or persuasion, religious or political; peace, 
commerce, and honest friendship with all nations. 
— entangling alliances with none ; the support of 
the State £overmnents in all their rights, as the 
most competent administrations for our domestic 
concerns, are the surest bulwarks against anti- 
republican tendencies. 

171 Thomas Jefferson : First Inaugural 

Address, March -1, 1801. 
Burdens. 

Money and time are the heaviest burdens of life, 
and the unhappiest of all mortals are those who 
have more of either than they know how to use. 

172 Dr. Johxsox: The Idler. No. 30. 

Business. 

That which is everybody's business is nobody's 
business. 

173 Izaak Walton : The Complete Angler, 

Pt. i., Ch. 2 
Busybodies. 

And withal they learn to be idle, wandering 
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tattlers also and busy bodies, speaking things which 
they ought not. 

174 New Testament : 1 Timothy v. 13. 

Butter. 

She looketh as butter would not melt in her 
mouth. 

175 John Heywood: Proverbes, Pt. i., Ch. 10. 

C. 

Calamity. 

Public calamity is a mighty leveller. 

176 Burke: Sj>eech, March 22, 1775. On 

Conciliation with America. 

Fortune is not satisfied with inflicting one 
calamity. 

177 Publius Syrus ; Maxim 274. 

Calculations. 

Nowhere are our calculations more frequently 
upset than in war. 

178 Liyy: Histories, xxx., 30. 

Calumny. 

Be thou as chaste as ice and pure as snow, thou 
shalt not escape calumny. 

179 Shaks, : Hamlet, Actiii., Sc. 1. 

Cant. 

Of all the cants which are canted in this canting 
world, though the cant of hypocrites may be the 
worst, the cant of criticism is the most tormenting ! 

180 Laurence Sterxe : Tristram shandy 

(orig. ed.), Vol. iii., Ch. 12. 
Care. 

Want of care does us more damage than want of 
knowledge. 

181 Benjamin Franklin: Poor Richard's Ah 



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Hang sorrow, care'll kill a cat. 

182 Ben Jonson : Every Man in His 

Humor, Act i., Sc. 3. 

How happy the life unembarrassed by the cares 
of business ! 

183 Publius Syrus: Maxim 725. 
Care is an enemy to life. 

184 Shaks. : Tw. Night, Act i., Sc. 3. 

Caste. 

A man should, whatever happens, keep to his 
own caste, race, and breed. Let the White go to 
the White and the Black to the Black. Then, 
whatever trouble falls is in the ordinary course of 
things — neither sudden, alien, nor unexpected. 

185 Rud yard Kipling : Plain Tales from 

the Hills. Beyond the Pale. 
Castle. 

For a man's house is his castle. 

186 Sir Edward Coke: Third Institute, p. 162. 

Cause. 

It is a maxim in all philosophy, that causes 
which do not appear are to be considered as not 
existing. 

187 Hume: Essays. XX. Of National 

Characters. 

I am not only witty in myself, but the cause that 
wit is in other men. 

188 Shaks. : 2 Henry IV., Act i., Sc. 1. 

There is occasions and causes why and where- 
fore in all things. 

189 Shaks. : Henry V., Act v., Sc. 2. 
A noble cause doth ease much a grievous case. 

190 Sir Philip Sidney: Arcadia, Bk. i. 



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Caution. 

The cautious seldom err. 

191 Confucius: Analects, Bk. iv. Ch. 23. 

(Leggc, Translator.) 
Censure. 

Censure is the tax a man pays to the public for 
being; eminent. 

192 Swift: Thoughts on Various Subjects. 

Chaff. 

I can tell where my own shoe jrinches me ; and 
you must not think, sir, to catch old birds with 
chaff. 

193 Cervantes: Don Quixote, Pt. i., Bk. iv., 

Ch. 5. 

His reasons are as two grains of wheat hid in 
two bushels of chaff. 

194 Shaks. : M. of Venice, Act i., Sc. 1. 

Chance. 

Chance generally favors the prudent. 

195 Joubert: Pensees. No. 147. 

(Attivell, Translator.) 

I moreover affirm that our wisdom itself, and 
wisest consultations, for the most part commit 
themselves to the conduct of chance. 

196 Montaigne: Bk. iii., Ch. 8, Of the 

Art of Conversation. 
Change. 

Change is inevitable in a progressive country. 
Change is constant. 

197 Disraeli (Earl of Beaconsfield) : 
Speech at Conservative Banquet, Edin- 
burgh, Oct. 29, 1867. 

Such is the state of life that none are happy but 
by the anticipation of change. The change itself 



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is nothing : when we have made it the next wish 
is to change acrain. 

198 Dr. Johnson: Basselas, Ch. 47. 

Chapel. 

For where God built a church, there the Devil 
would also build a chapel. 

199 Martin Luther : Table-Talk, Ixvii. 

Chapter. 

And so on to the end of the chapter. 

200 Rabelais: Bk. v., Ch. 10. 

Character. 

Character is a fact, and that is much in a world 
of pretence and concession. 

201 A. Bronson Alcott : Table Talk. III. 

Pursuits. One^s Star. 

Character must be kept bright, as well as clean. 

202 Lord Chesterfield : Letters to His 

Son. London, Jan. 8, 1750. 

Character is higher than intellect. ... A great 
soul will be strong to live, as well as to think. 

203 Emerson : The American Scholar. 



I'm called away by particular business, but I 
leave my character behind me. 

204 Sheridan: The School for Scandal, 

Act ii., Sc. 2. 
Charity. 

With malice toward none ; with charity for all ; 
with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see 
the right, let us strive on to finish the work we 
are in ; to bind up the nation's wounds ; to care for 
him who shall have borne the battle, and for his 
widow, and his orphan — to do all which may 



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achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace among 
ourselves, and with all nations. 

205 Lincoln: Second Inaug. Address, 1865. 

Charity shall cover the multitude of sins. 

206 New Testament: 1 Peter iv. 8. 

Though I speak with the tongues of men and of 
angels, and have not charity, I am become as 
sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal. 

207 New Testament: 1 Corinthians xiii. 1. 

Chastity. 

The very ice of chastity is in them. 

208 Shaks. : As You Like It, Act iii., Sc. 4. 

Cheating. 

It is as impossible for a man to be cheated by 
any one but himself, as for a thing to be and not 
to be at the same time. 

209 Emerson : Essays. Compensation. 

Cheerfulness. 

A merry heart maketh a cheerful countenance. 

210 Old Testament: Proverbs xv. 13. 
Laughing cheerfulness throws sunlight on all 

the paths of life. 

211 Richter: Lavana. Fourth Fragment, 

Ch. 4, Sec. 97. (A. H., Translator.) 

Childhood. 

A happy childhood is the pledge of a ripe man- 
hood. 

212 A. Bronson Alcott: Table Talk. Nurture. 

Childhood has no forebodings ; but then it is 
soothed by no memories of outlived sorrow. 

213 George Eliot : The Mill on the Floss. 



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Children. 

Children sweeten labors, but they make misfor- 
tunes more bitter ; they increase the eares of life, 
but they mitigate the remembrance of death . 

214 Bacon: Essays. Of Parents and Children, 

Ah, there are no monger any children ! 

215 Moli re: Le Malade Imaginaire, 

Act iii., Sc. 11. 

Chivalry. 

But the age of chivalry is gone ; that of sophis- 
ters, economists, and calculators has succeeded. 

216 Burke : Reflections on the Revolution in 

France, vol. iii., p. 331. 

Choice. 

God offers to every man his choice between 
truth and repose. 

217 Emerson : Essays. Intellect. 

Where there is no choice, we do well to make 
no difficulty. 

218 George MacDonald: Sir Gibbie, Ch. 11. 

Christianity. 

Christianity is simply the ideal form of manhood 
represented to us by Jesus Christ. 

219 Henry Ward Beecher: 
Proverbs from Plymouth Puljnt. 

Christianity is the bringing of God to man, and 
of man to God. 

220 Phillips Brooks: Sermons. V. The 

SouVs Refuge in God. 

Christians. 

Sir, I think all Christians, whether Papists or 
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that their differences are trivial, and rather politi- 
cal than religious. 

221 Dr. Johnson : BoswelVs Life of Johnson, 

Vol. ii., Ch. 5. 1763. 
Whatever makes men good Christians makes 
them good citizens. 

222 Daniel Webster: Discourse, Plymouth, 

Dec. 22, 1820. 
Christmas. 

And I do come home at Christmas. We all do, 
or we all should. We all come home, or ought to 
come home, for a short holiday — the longer, the 
better — from the great boarding-school, where 
we are for ever working at our arithmetical slates, 
to take, and give a rest. 

223 Dickens : Christmas Stories. 

Church. 

I recognize in the church an institution thorough- 
ly, sincerely catholic, adapted to all climes and to 
all ages. 

224 Disraeli {Earl of BeaconsfielcT) : Sybil. 

To be of no church is dangerous. Religion, of 
which the rewards are distant, and which is ani- 
mated only by faith and hope, will glide by de- 
grees out of the mind unless it be invigorated and 
reimpressed by external ordinances, by stated calls 
to worship, and the salutary influence of example. 

225 Dr. Johnson: Life of Milton. 

Circumlocution. 

Whatever was required to be done, the Circum- 
locution Office was beforehand with all the public 
departments in the art of perceiving how not to 
do it. 

226 Dickens: Little Dorrit, Bk. ii., Ch. 10. 



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Circumstances. 

Circumstances alter cases. 

227 Thomas C. Haliburton (" Sam 

Slick ") : The Old Judge, Ch. 15. 

Circumstances do not make a man weak, "but 
they show what mann r of man he is. 

228 Thomas a Kempis : Be Imiiatione 

Christi, i., 16, 4. 
Cities. 

If cities were built by the sound of music, then 
some edifices would appear to be constructed by 
grave, solemn tones ; others to have danced forth 
to light, fantastic airs. 

229 Hawthorne : American Note-Books. 

Civilization. 

What is civilization ? I answer, the power of 
good women. 

230 Emerson : Miscellanies. Woman. 
Civilization obeys the same law as the ocean ; it 

has its ebb and its flow, and where it advances on 
one shore it recedes on the other. 

231 Lord Lytton: Speeches. XIV. Beeds 

Mechanics' Institution, Jan. 25, 1854. 
Cleanliness. 

Cleanness of body was ever esteemed to proceed 
from a due reverence to God. 

232 Bacon: Advancement oj * Beaming, Bk. ii. 

Certainly this is a duty, not a sin. " Cleanliness 
is indeed next to godliness. " 

233 John Wesley : Sermon xcii. On Bress. 

Cleverness. 

Cleverness is serviceable for everything, suffi- 
cient for nothing. 

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Clouds. 

Thus we play the fools with the time, and the 
spirits of the wise sit in the clouds and mock us. 
285 Shaks. : 2 Henry IV., Act ii., Sc. 2. 

Cobwebs. 

I can look sharp as well as another, and let me 
alone to keep the cobwebs out of my eyes. 

236 Cervantes: Don Quixote, Pt. ii., Ch. 33. 

Coin. 

Silver and gold are not the only coin ; virtue too 
passes current all over the world. 

237 Euripides: (Edipus. Frag. 546. 

Color. 

Of all God's gifts to the sight of man, color is 
the holiest, the most divine, the most solemn. 

238 Ruskin : Stones of Venice. Sea Stories. 

Comfort. 

Comfort is the god of this world, but comfort it 
will never obtain by making it an object. 

239 E. P. Whipple: Literature and Life. 

Intellectual Health and Disease. 
Companionship. 

They are never alone that are accompanied with 
noble thoughts. 

240 Sir Philip Sidney: Arcadia, Bk. i. 

Company. 

To keep good company, especially at our first 
setting out, is the way to receive good impressions. 

241 Lord Chesterfield : Advice to His Son. 

Comparison. 

Comparisons made between wit and wit, cour- 
age and courage, beauty and beauty, birth and 
birth, are always odious and ill taken. 

242 Cervantes: Don Quixote, Pt. ii.,Ch. 1. 



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Comparisons are odorous. 

243 Siiaks. : Much Ado, Act iii., Se. 5. 

Compass. 

There are no points of the compass on the chart, 
of true patriotism. 

244 Robert C. Winthkop: Letter to Bos- 

ton Commercial Club in 1879. 
Compatriots. 

Not because Socrates said so, ... I look upon 
all men as my compatriots. 

245 Montaigne: Bk. iii., Ch. 9. Of Vanity. 

Compensation, 

There is a remedy for every wrong, and a satis- 
faction for every soul. 

246 Emerson: Letters and Social Aims. 

Competency. 

Superfluity comes sooner by white hairs, but 
competency lives longer. 

247 Shaks. : M. oj Venice, Act i., Sc. 2. 

Compliments. 

Compliments are in their place only where there 
is full as much of weakness as of merit. 

248 Landor : Imaginary Conversations. 

Lord Chesterfield and Lord Chatham. 

Conceit. 

Conceit is the most incurable disease that is 
known to the human soul. 

249 Henry Ward Beecher: 
Proverbs from Plymouth Pnljnt. 

Wiser in his own conceit than seyen men that 
can render a reason. 

250 Old Testament: Proverbs xxvi. 16. 



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Conclusion, 

Oh, most lame and impotent conclusion ! 

251 Siiaks. : Othello, Act ii., Sc. 1. 

Condition. 

It is a condition which confronts us — not a 
theory. 

252 Groyer Cleveland : An. Message, 1887. 

Conference. 

Reading maketh a full man, conference a ready 
man, and writing an exact man. 

253 Bacon : Essays. Of Studies. 

Confidence. 

Trust men, and they will be true to you ; treat 
them greatly, and they will show themselves great. 

254 Emerson: Essays. Prudence. 

Confidence is a plant of slow growth in an aged 
bosom. 

255 William Pitt (Earl of Chatham) : 

Speech, Jan. 14, 1766, 
Conflict. 

It is an irrepressible conflict between opposing 
and enduring forces. 

256 William H. Seward: Speech. Oct. 25,1858. 

Conscience. 

The conscience is the most elastic material in 
the world. To-day you cannot stretch it over a 
mole-hill, to-morrow it hides a mountain. 

257 Bulwer-Lytton : Ernest Maltravers, 

Bk. i., Ch. 7. 

Trust that man in nothing who has not a con- 
science in everything. 

258 Laurence Sterxe : Sermon xxvii. 



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Consecration. 

Consecration is going out into the world where 
God Almighty is, and using every power for his 
glory. 

259 Henry Ward Beecher : Life Thoughts. 

But, in a larger sense, we cannot dedicate — 
we cannot consecrate — we cannot hallow — this 
ground. The brave men, living and dead, who 
struggled here, have consecrated it far above our 
poor power to add or detract. The world will 
little note nor long remember what we say here, 
but it can never forget what they did here. 

260 Lincoln: Speech at Gettysburg, 1863. 

Consistency. 

A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little 
minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers 
and divines. 

261 Emerson*. Essays, Self -Reliance. 

Constancy. 

I would have men of such constancy put to sea, 
that their business might be everything, and their 
intent everywhere; for that's it that always makes 
a good voyage of nothing. 

262 Shaks. : Tw. Night, Act ii., Sc. 4. 

Contempt. 

Wrongs are often forgiven, but contempt never 
is ; our pride remembers it forever, 

263 Lord Chesterfield: Advice, to His 

Son. Knowledge oj the World. 
Contempt is a kind of gangrene which, if it 
seizes one part of a character, corrupts all the 
rest by degrees. 

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Contentment. 

Contentment consisteth not in adding more fuel, 
but in taking away some lire ; not in multiplying 
of wealth, but in subtracting men's desires. 

265 Thomas Fuller : The Holy and Profane 

States. The Holy State. Of Contentment. 

Conversation. 

Conversation is the music of the mind, an in- 
tellectual orchestra, where all the instruments 
should bear a part, but where none should play 
together. 

266 Colton: Lacon. 

When you are in company, talk often, but never 
long ; in that case, if you do not please, at least 
you are sure not to tire your hearers. 

267 Lord Chesterfield : Advice to His Son. 

Bides for Conversation. 
Co-operation. 

We are born for co-operation, like the feet, the 
hands, the eyelids, and the upper and lower jaws. 

268 Marcus Aurelius : Quod sibi ipsi, ii., 1. 

Corporations. 

They cannot commit treason, nor be outlawed, 
nor excommunicated, for they have no souls. 

269 Sir Edward Coke : Case of Sutton s 

Hospital, x. Rep. 32. 

No government has the moral right to invest a 
company of men with powers which enable them 
to coin money out of the needs of the people, and 
which practically doom the people to suffering or 
to unquestioning acquiescence in their exactions. 

270 George C. Lorimer : Christianity in the 
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Counsel. 

Who cannot give good counsel ? Tis cheap, it 
costs them nothing. 

271 Burton: Anatomy of Melancholy > Pt. ii. 

Country. 

Indeed. I tremble for my country when I reflect 
that God is just. 

272 Thomas Jefferson : Xotcs on Virginia. 

Let our object be our country, our whole coun- 
try, and nothing but our country. 

273 Daniel Webster : Address on Laying the 

Corner-stone of Bunker Hill Monument. 

Courage. 

Courage, considered in itself or without refer- 
ence to its causes, is no virtue, and deserves no es- 
teem. It is found in the best and the worst, and 
is to be judged according to the qualities from 
which it springs and with which it is conjoined. 

27l William Ellery Channing : 

Discourse, 1835. War. 

To bear other people's afflictions, every one has 
courage enough and to spare. 

275 Benjamin Franklin: Poor Richard's Al. 

Courtesy. 

Life is not so short but that there is always time 
enough for courtesy. 

276 Emerson: Litters and Social Aims. 

Covetousness. 

Covetousness is ever attended with solicitude 
and anxiety. 

277 Benjamin Franklin : On True Happi- 

ness, Penn. Gazette, Nov. 20, 1735. 



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Cowardice. 

He who fears to venture as far as his heart 
urges and his reason permits, is a coward ; he who 
ventures further than he intended to go, is a slave. 

278 Heine : Wit, Wisdom, and Pathos. 

There is nothing but roguery to be found in 
villanous men. Yet a coward is worse than a cup 
of sack with lime in it : a villanous coward. A 
plague of all cowards, I say still. 

279 Shaks. : 1 Henry IV., Act ii., Sc. 4. 

Cradle. 

Death borders upon our birth, and our cradle 
stands in the grave. 

280 Bishop Hall: Epistles, Dec. iii., Ep. 2. 

Creation, 

Creation is great, and cannot be understood. 

281 Carlyle : Essays. Characteristics. 

Creeds. 

Call your opinions your creed, and you will 
change it every week. Make your creed simply 
and broadly out of the revelation of God, and you 
may keep it to the end. 

282 Phillips Brooks : 
Sermons. Keeping the Faith. 

Crime. 

If poverty is the mother of crimes, want of sense 
is the father. 

283 LaBruy^re: Characters. Of Man. 

Criticism. 

Men of great talents, whether poets or histo- 
rians, seldom escape the attacks of those who, with- 
out ever favoring the world with any production 



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of their own, take delight in criticising the works 
of others. 

284 Cervantes: Don Quixote, Pt. ii., Ch. 3. 

(Jarvis, Translator}. 

Blown about with every wind of criticism. 

285 Dn. Johnson : BoswelTs Life of Johnson, 

Vol. viii., Ch. 10. 1784. 
Critics. 

You know who the critics are ? The men who 
have failed in literature and art. 

286 Disraeli (Earl of Beaconsfield) : 

Lothair, Ch. 35. 

A critic must accept what is best in a poet, and 
thus become his best encourager. 

287 Stedman: Poets of America, Ch. 6. 

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow . 
Cromwell. 

It has often been affirmed, but apparently with 
little reason, that Oliver died at a time fortu- 
nate for his renown, and that, if his life had been 
prolonged, it would probably have closed amidst 
disgraces and disasters. It is certain that he was, 
to the last, honored by his soldiers, obeyed by the 
whole population of the British islands, and 
dreaded by all foreign powers, that he was laid 
among the ancient sovereigns of England with 
funeral pomp such as London had never before 
seen, and that he was succeeded by his son Rich- 
ard as quietly as any king had ever been succeeded 
by any prince of Wales. 

288 Macaulay: Hist, of England, Vol. i., Ch. 1. 

Cruelty. 

Cruelty, if we consider it as a crime, is the 
greatest of all ; if we consider it as a madness, we 



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are equally justifiable in applying to it the readiest 
and the surest means of suppression. 

289 Landor : Imaginary Conversations. 

Arisloleles and Callislhenes. 
Crystallization. 

With the average man there comes a time when 
his mind crystallizes and his beliefs become ab- 
solutely fixed. He may not resent the discoveries 
of younger men ; he certainly will not assimilate 
them. He may not oppose new methods of action ; 
he certainly will not adopt them. 

290 Dr. John Watson (<« Ian Maclaren 11 ) : 

Church Folks. 
Cucumbers. 

He had been eight years upon a project for ex- 
tracting sunbeams out of cucumbers, which were 
to be put in phials hermetically sealed, and let out 
to warm the air in raw, inclement summers. 

291 Swift: Gulliver's Travels, Pt. iii., Ch. 5. 

Cultivation. 

Cultivation has its balances. 

292 Lew Wallace : Ben Bur, Bk. vi., Ch. 2. 

Culture. 

Culture is then properly described not as having 
its origin in curiosity, but as having its origin in 
the love of perfection : it is a study of perfection. 

293 Matthew Arnold • Culture and 
Anarchy, Ch. 1. Sweetness and Light. 

The foundation of culture, as of character, is at 
last the moral sentiment. 

294: Emerson : Letters and Social Aims. 

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42 DICTIONARY OF PROSE QUOTATIONS. 

Curiosity. 

Frivolous curiosity about trifles, and a laborious 
attention to little objects, which neither require nor 
deserve a moment's thought, lower a man, who 
thence is thought (and not unjustly) incapable of 
greater matters. 

295 Lord Chesterfield : Advice to His Son. 

Curtain. 

Let down the curtain : the farce is done. 

296 Rabelais : Motteux's Life. 

Custom. 

Custom reconciles to everything. 

297 Burke : On the Sublime and Beautiful, 

Pt. iv., Sec. 18. 
Nothing is stronger than custom. 

298 Ovid: The Art of Love, ii., 345. 

We are more sensible of what is done against 
custom than against Nature. 

299 Plutarch: Of Eating of Flesh. Tract 1. 

Cynics. 

The cynic is one who never sees a good quality 
in a man, and never fails to see a bad one. He is 
the human owl, vigilant in darkness, and blind to 
light, mousing for vermin, and never seeing noble 
game. Henry Ward Beecher: 

300 Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit. 

D. 

Dabbling. 

I had dabbled a little in Universal History. 

301 Charles Lamb : My First Play. 
In matters of science he [Jefferson] was rather 

a dabbler than a philosopher. 

302 Theodore Parker : Historic Americans. 



DICTIONARY OF PROSE QUOTATIONS. 43 

Daggers. 

As you have spoke daggers to hirn you may 
justly dread the use of them against your own 
breast. 

303 Junius : Letter xxvi. 

Daintiness. 

The people, saith Malmsbury, learnt of the 
outlandish Saxon rudeness, of the Flemish dainti- 
ness and softness. 

304 Milton: History of England, Ch. 5. 

Dandyism. 

Dandyism as yet affects to look down on Drudg- 
ism ; but perhaps the hour of trial, when it will 
be practically seen which ought to look down and 
which up, is not so distant. 

305 Carlyle : Sartor Besartus. 

Danger. 

Danger for danger's sake is senseless. 

306 Leigh Hunt : Table Talk. Steeple- 

Chasing. 
Darkness. 

There is such a thing as the pressure of dark- 
ness. 

307 Victor Hugo: The Toilers of the Sea, 

Pt. ii., Bk. ii., Ch. 5. 

Darkness which may be felt. 

308 Old Testament: Exodus^. 21. 

There is no darkness but ignorance. 

309 Shaks. : Tw. Night, Act iv., So. 2. 

Darling. 

It is better to be an old man's derling than a 
yong man's werling. 

310 John Heywood: Proverbes, Pt. ii., Ch. 7. 



44 DICTIONARY OF PROSE QUOTATIONS. 

Daubery. 

She works by charms, by spells, by the figure, 
and such daubery as this is. 

311 Shaks. : Mcr. W. of W., Act iv., Sc. 2. 

Dauntlessness. 

She visited every part of the works in person, 
cheering her defenders by her presence and 
dauntless resolution. 

312 William H. Prescott: 
Ferdinand and Isabella, Vol. i., Ch. 2. 

Dawn. 

There is no solemnity so deep, to a right-think- 
ing creature, as that of dawn. 

313 Ruskin : Sesame and Lilies. Preface. 

Day. 

A day in thy courts is better than a thousand. 

314 Old Testament: Psalm lxxxiv. 10. 

The day, when the longest, steals imperceptibly 
away. 1 

315 Pliny the Younger : Letters. Bk. ix, 

Letter xxxvi. 
Death. 

Think not disdainfully of death, but look on it 
with favor ; for even, death is one of the things 
that Nature wills. 

316 Marcus Aurelius: Meditations, ix., 3. 

Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark. 

317 Bacon: Essays. Of Death. 
Death puts an end to rivalship and competition. 

The dead can boast no advantage over us, nor 
can we triumph over them. 

318 Hazlitt: Characteristics. No. 404. 

1 This is usually rendered, " The longest day soon comes to 
an end." 



DICTIONARY OF PROSE QUOTATIONS. 45 

Death is the ugly fact which Nature has to hide, 
and she hides it well. 

319 Alexander Smith: 
Dreamthorp. Death and Dying. 

Debasement. 

A state of continual dependence on the generosity 
of others is a life of gradual debasement. 

320 Goldsmith : Citizen of the World. 

Debate. 

The noble lord is the Rupert of debate. 

321 Disraeli (Earl of Beaconsjield) : Speech. 

Debt. 

Industry pays debts, while despair increaseth 
them. 

322 Benjamin Franklin: Poor Richard's Al. 

Small debts are like small shot ; they are rat- 
tling on every side, and can scarcely be escaped 
without a wound : great debts are like cannon ; of 
loud noise, but little danger. 

323 Dr. Johnson : Letter to Jos. Simpson, Esq. 

The gentleman has not seen how to reply to 
this, otherwise than by supposing me to have ad- 
vanced the doctrine that a national debt is a 
national blessing. 

324 Daniel Webster: Speech in U. S. Senate. 

Decay. 

Man passes away ; his name perishes from 
record and recollection ; his history is as a tale 
that is told, and his very monument becomes a 
ruin . 

325 Washington Irving: 
The Shetch-Book. Westminster Abbey. 



46 DICTIONARY OF PROSE QUOTATIONS. 

Deceit. 

There is no killing the suspicion that deceit has 
once begotten. 

326 George Eliot: Romola, Ch. 58. 

Decision. 

The power of uncontrollable decision is of the 
most delicate and dangerous nature. 

327 James A. Bayard : Speech, Feb. 19, 1802. 
A good decision is based on knowledge and not 

on numbers. 

328 Plato: Laches, ix. (Stephens, p. 184, e). 

Deeds. 

A man makes no noise over a good deed, but 
passes on to another as a vine to bear grapes 
again in season. 

329 Marcus Aurelius: Meditations, v., 6. 
We will take the good will for the deed. 

330 Rabelais: Works, Bk. iv., Ch. 49. 

Deformity. 

He had a head which statuaries loved to copy, 
and a foot the deformity of which the beggars in 
the streets mimicked. 

331 Macaulay: On Moore s 
Life of Lord Byron. 1830. 

Degree. 

Surely men of low degree are vanity, and men 
of high decree are a lie : to be laid in the balance 
they are altogether lighter than vanity. 

332 Old Testament : Psalm lxii. 9. 

Delay. 

He that riseth late must trot all day, and shall 
scarce overtake his business at night. 

333 Benjamin Franklin : Poor Richard's Al. 



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Delight. 

A sip is the most that mortals are permitted 
from any goblet of delight. 

334 A. Bronson Alcott : Table Talk. Habits. 
The last excessive feelings of delight are always 

grave. Leigh Hunt : Table Talk. Song of the 

335 Nightingale. 

Deluge. 

After me the deluge. 

336 Mme. De Pompadour: 3 Notes and 

Queries, 397. 
Democracy. 

Democracy is the healthful life-blood which cir- 
culates through the veins and arteries, which sup- 
ports the system, but which ought never to appear 
externally, and as the mere blood itself. 

337 Coleridge: Table Talk, Sept. 19, 1830. 

To one that advised him [Lycurgus] to set up a 
democracy in Sparta, " Pray," said Lycurgus, " do 
you first set up a democracy in your own house." 

338 Plutarch : Apophthegms of Kings and 

Great Commanders. Lycurgus. 
Demonstration. 

Any one thing in the creation is sufficient to 
demonstrate a Providence to an humble and grate- 
ful mind. 

339 Epictetus: Discourses, Ch. 16. 

Desert. 

The desert shall rejoice, and blossom as the rose. 

340 Old Testament : Isaiah xxxv. 1. 

Desire. 

It is not wishing and desiring to be saved will 
bring men to heaven : hell's mouth is full of good 
wishes. 

341 Thomas Shepard: The Sincere Convert. 



48 DICTIONARY OF PROSE QUOTATIONS. 

Desolation. 

Lord ! how sad a sight it is to see the streets 
empty of people, and very few upon the 'Change. 
Jealous of every door that one sees shut up, lest 
it should be the plague ; and about us two shops in 
three, if not more, generally shut up. 

342 Pepys: Diary, Aug. 16, 1665. 

Despair. 

There is no despair so absolute as that which 
comes with the first moments of our first great 
sorrow, when we have not yet known what it is to 
have suffered and be healed, to have despaired 
and have recovered hope. 

843 George Eliot: Adam Becle, Ch. 31. 

Despatch. 

Despatch is the soul of business. 

344 Earl of Chesterfield : Letter, 

Feb. 5, 1750. 
Despotism. 

Despotism sits nowhere so secure as under the 
effigy and ensigns of Freedom. 

345 Landor : Imaginary Conversations. 

General Lacy and Cur a Merino. 
Destiny. 

Wedding is destiny, and hanging likewise. 

346 John Heywood : Proverbes, Pt. L, Ch. 3. 

According to fates and destinies, and such odd 
sayings, the sisters three, and such branches of 
learning. 

347 • Shaks. : M. of Venice, Act ii., Sc. 2. 

Alas ! we are the sport of destiny. 

348 Thackeray : Barry Lyndon, Ch. 3. 



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Destruction. 

Pride goeth before destruction, and an haughty 
spirit before a fall. 

349 Old Testament ; Proverbs xvi. 18. 

Devil. 

If the Devil takes a less hateful shape to us than 
to our fathers, he is as busy with us as with them. 

350 Lowell : Among My Books. New Eng- 

land Two Centuries Ago. 

Needs must when the Devil drives. 

351 Rabelais: Works, Bk. iv., Ch. 57. 
No man means evil but the Devil, and we shall 

know him by his horns. 

352 Shaks. : Mer. W. ofW., Act v., Sc. 2. 

Devotion. 

Some persons are so devotional they have not 
one bit of true religion in them. 

353 B. K. Haydox: Table Talk. 

Dialogues. 

Dialogues of the unborn, like dialogues of the 
dead, or between two young children. 

354 Hawthorne: American Note-Books, 1839. 

Dictionaries. 

Dictionaries are like watches ; the worst is better 
than none, and the best cannot be expected to go 
quite true. 

355 Dr. Johnson: Johnsoniana, Piozzi, 178. 

Difference. 

You must* wear your rue with a difference. 
There's a daisy; I would give you some violets, 
but they withered. 

356 Shaks. : Hamlet, Act iv., Sc. 5. 



50 DICTIONARY OF PROSE QUOTATIONS. 

Difficulties. 

There is such a choice of difficulties that I am 
myself at a loss how to determine. 

357 James Wolfe: Desp. to Pitt, Sept. 2, 1759. 

Dignity. 

Remember this, — that there is a proper dignity 
and proportion to be observed in the performance 
of every act of life. 

358 Marcus Aurelius : Meditations, iv. 32. 

A certain dignity of manners is absolutely neces- 
sary to make eyen the most valuable character 
either respected or respectable in the world. 

359 Lord Chesterfield: Advice to his Son. 

Diligence. 

Dilio-ence is the mother of good fortune. 

360 Cert antes : Don Quixote, Pt. ii., Ch. 43. 
Diligence is the mother of good luck, and God 

giyes all things to industry. 

361 Benjamin Franklin : Poor Pilchard's Ah 

Diligence increaseth the fruit of toil. A dilatory 
man wrestles with losses. 

362 Hesiod: Works and Days. Line 412. 

Dinner. 

Better is a dinner of herbs where love is, than 
a stalled ox and hatred therewith. 

363 Old Testament: Proverbs xv. 17. 

My wife had got ready a very fine dinner — 
viz.: a dish of marrow-bones; a leg of mutton: 
a loin of veal ; a dish of fowl ; three pullets and 
two dozen of larks all in a dish ; a great tart, a 
neat's tongue, a dish of anchovies, a dish of 
prawns and cheese. 

364 Pepys: Diary, Jan. 26. 1660. 



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Diplomacy. 

Diplomacy is no shoemaker s stool on which one 
can sit, stretch a knee-strap, and put a patch on a 
hole ; diplomacy is not a craft which can be learnt 
by years and developed by rote on a roller. Di- 
plomacy is an art. 

365 Bismarck: 
Conversations with Prince Bismarck, p. 124. 
Collected by Heinrich von Poschinger. Edited 
by Sidney Whitman. 

Disappointment. 

Disappointment is often the salt of life. 

366 Theodore Parker: 

Miscellaneous Discourses . 

' Tis a bitter disappointment, when you have 
sown benefits, to reap a crop of injuries. 

367 Plautus: Epidicus, Act v., Sc. 2, 53. 

Discipline. 

A disciplinarian has affixed to him commonly 
the ideas of cruelty, severity, tyranny, etc. But 
if I were an officer, I am convinced I should be 
the most decisive disciplinarian in the army. I 
am convinced there is no other effective way of in- 
dulging; benevolence, humanity, and the tender 
social passions in an army. 

368 John Adams : 

Letters Addressed to His Wife.- Letter cxxxiv. 

<< The old girl," says Mr. Bagnet in reply, " is 
a thoroughly fine woman. Consequently she is 
like a thoroughly fine day. Gets finer as she gets 
on. I never saw the old girl's equal. But I never 
own to it before her. Discipline must be main- 
tained." 

369 Dickens: Bleak House, Ch. 27. 



52 DICTIONARY OF PROSE QUOTATIONS. 

Discontent. 

Discontent is the want of self-reliance: it is 
infirmity of will. 

370 Emerson: Essays. Self -Reliance. 

Discord. 

When factions are carried too high and too 
violently, it is a sign of weakness in princes, and 
much to the prejudice both of their authority and 
business. 

371 Bacon: Essays. Of Faction. 

Discouragement. 

Nothing resembles pride so much as discourage- 
ment. 

372 Amiel: Journal, Bee. 30, 1850. 

Discourse. 

It is good in discourse, and speech of conversa- 
tion, to vary, and intermingle speech of the pres- 
ent occasion with arguments ; tales with reasons ; 
asking of questions with telling of opinions ; and 
jest with earnest ; for it is a dull thing to tire ; 
and as we say now, to jade anything too far. 

373 Bacon: Essays. Of Discourse. 

Themistocles said that a man's discourse was 
like to a rich Persian carpet, the beautiful figures 
and patterns gf which can be shown only by 
spreading and extending it out ; when it is con- 
tracted and folded up, they are obscured and lost. 

374 Plutarch: Life of Themistocles. 

Good company and good discourse are the very 
sinews of virtue. 

375 Izaak Walton: 
The Complete Angler, Pt. L, Ch. 2. 



DICTIONARY OF PROSE QUOTATIONS. 53 

Discoveries. 

All great discoveries are made by men whose 
feelings run ahead of their thinkings. 

376 Charles H. Parkhurst: 
Sermons. III. Coming to the Truth. 

Discretion. 

Let your own discretion be your tutor ; suit the 
action to the word, the word to the action - 

377 Shaks. : Hamlet, Act iii., Sc. 2. 

The better part of valor is discretion. 

378 Shaks. : 1 Henry IV., Act v., Sc. 4. 

Disease. 

The remedy is worse than the disease. 

379 Bacon : Essays. Of Seditions. 

[Diseases] crucify the soul of man, attenuate 
our bodies, dry them, wither them, shrivel them 
up like old apples, make them so many anato- 
mies. 

380 Burton: Anatomy of Melancholy , 

Pt. i., Sec. ii., Memb. 3, Subs. 10. 

Disinterestedness. 

How difficult it is to get men to believe that any 
other man can or does act from disinterestedness ! 

381 B. R. Haydon : Table Talk. 
Interest speaks all sorts of tongues, and plays 

all sorts of parts, even that of disinterestedness. 

382 La Rochefoucauld: Maxi?no9. 

Disloyalty. 

The silence of a friend commonly amounts to 
treachery. His not daring to say anything in our 
behalf implies a tacit censure. 

383 Hazlitt : Characteristics. Xo. 15 



54 DICTIONARY OF PROSE QUOTATIONS. 

Disposition. 

A man's disposition is never well known till he 
be crossed. 

384 Bacon: Advancement of Learning , Bk. ii. 

Disputation. 

The itch of disputing will prove the scab of 

churches. Sir Henry Wotton : 

385 A Panegyric to King Charles. 

Disrespect. 

No one minds what Jeffreys says : ... it Is not 
more than a week ago that I heard him speak dis- 
respectfully of the equator. 

386 Sydney Smith : Lady Holland's Memoir. 

Distance. 

Distance sometimes endears friendship, and 
absence sweeteneth it. 

387 James Howell: Familiar Letters, Bk. i. 

Distinction. 

Distinction without a difference. 

388 Fielding: Tom Jones, Bk. vi., Ch. 13. 

Distrust. 

He that has lost his faith, what staff has he 
left? Bacon: Moral and Historical Works. 

389 Omamenta Rationalia. 

Divinity. 

There is divinity in odd numbers, either in 
nativity, chance, or death. 

390 Shaks. : Mer. W. oj W., Act v., Sc. 1. 

Doctor. 

After death, the doctor. 

391 Herbert: Jacula Pmdentiim. 



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Dog. 

Is thy servant a dog, that he should do this 
great thing ? 

392 Old Testament: 2 Kings viii. 13. 

Dogmatism. 

The most unflinching sceptic of course believes 
in the objections to knocking his head against a 
post as implicitly as the most audacious dogmatist. 

393 Leslie Stephen : English Thought, i., Sc. 57. 

Dollar. 

The Almighty Dollar, that great object of uni- 
versal devotion throughout our land, seems to 
have no genuine devotees in these peculiar villages. 

394 Irving: The Creole Village. 

Dome. 

The dome of Agrippa, still glittering with 
bronze, . . . told to the Mercian and Northum- 
brian pilgrims some part of the story of that great 
civilized world which had passed away. 

395 Macaulay: Risf. of England, Vol. i., Ch. 1. 

Domicil. 

Let him have no culinary fire, no domicil ; let 
him, when very hungr} r , go to the town for food. 

396 Sir William Jones : Institute of ' Manu, xii. 

Domination. 

No human being can arbitrarily dominate over 
another without grievous damage to his own nature. 

397 Huxley: Lay Sermons, p. 21. 

Doomsday. 

They may serve for any theme, and never out 
of date until Doomsday. 

398 Sir Thomas Browne : Vulgar Errors. 



56 DICTIONARY OF PROSE QUOTATIONS. 

Doubt. 

When in doubt, win the trick. 

399 Hoyle: Twenty-four Rules for 

Learners, Bute 12. 
Dowry. 

Every rational creature has all nature for his 
dowry and estate. 

400 Emersox : Miscellanies. 

Dragon. 

Peggy O'Dovrd is indeed the same as ever ; . . . 
a tyrant over her Michael : a dragon amongst all 
the ladies of the regiment. 

401 Thackeray: Vanity Fair, Ch. 43. 

Drama. 

The manhood of poetry is the drama. 

402 J. C. and A. W. Hare: Guesses at Truth. 

Dreaming. 

A dream itself is but a shadow. 

403 Shaks. : Hamlet, Act ii.. Sc. 2. 
I have had a most rare vision. I have had a 

dream, — past the wit of man to say what dream 
it was. 

404 Shaks. : Mid. N. Dream, Act iv., Sc. 1. 

Dregs. 

What too curious dreg espies my sweet lady in 
the fountain of my love ? 

405 Shaks. : Troil. and Cress.. Act iii., Sc. 2. 

Dress. 

Those who make their dress a principal part of 
themselves, will, in general, become of no more 
value than their dress. 

406 Hazlitt : Political Essays. 

On the Clerical Character 



DICTIONARY OF PROSE QUOTATIONS. 57 

I hold that gentleman to be the best dressed 
whose dress no one observes. 

407 Trollope: Thackeray, Ch. 9. 

(English Men of Letters.) 
Dribbling. 

Small temptations allure bnt dribbling offenders. 

408 Milton: Apology for Smectymnuus. 

Drinking. 

I drink when I have occasion, and sometimes 
when I have no occasion. 

409 Cervantes: Don Quixote, Pt. ii., Ch. 33. 
'Tis not the drinking that is to be blamed, but 

the excess. 

410 John Selden: Humility. 

I have very poor and unhappy brains for drink- 
ing ; I could wish courtesy would invent some 
other custom of entertainment. 

411 Shaks. : Othello, Act ii., Sc. 3. 

Driving. 

Like the driving of Jehu, the son of Nimshi: 
for he driveth furiously. 

412 Old Testament : 2 Kings ix. 20. 

Drunkenness. 

He calls drunkenness an expression identical 
with ruin. 

413 Diogenes Laertius : Pythagoras, vi. 

Drunkenness is nothing else than a voluntary 
madness. Seneca: Works. Epistles. No. 83. 

414 (Thomas Lodge, Editor.) 

Dulness. 

He is not only dull himself, but the cause of 
dulness in others. 

415 Dr. Johnson: BoswelVs Life, Ch. 5. 1784. 



58 DICTIONARY OF PROSE QUOTATIONS. 

Dust, 

For dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou 
return. 

416 Old Testament : Genesis iii. 19. 

Duplicity. 

I, I, I myself, sometimes, leaving the fear of 
heaven on the left hand, and hiding mine honor 
in my necessity, am fain to shuffle, to hedge, and 
to lurch. 

417 Shaks. : Mer. W. of.W., Act ii., Sc. 2. 

Duty. 

Not liberty but duty is the condition of existence. 

418 Mathilde Blind: George Eliot, Ch. 1. 

(Famous Women Series.) 

The sense of duty pursues us ever. 

419 Joseph Cook: Boston Monday Lectures. 

Matthew Arnold? s Views on Conscience. 

Duty, — the command of heaven, the eldest 
voice of God. Charles Kingsley : 

420 Sermons for the Times. Sermon xxii. 

Let us have faith that right makes might; and 
in that faith let us dare to do our duty as we un- 
derstand it. 

421 Lincoln : Address, N.Y. City, Feb. 21, 1859. 



B. 

Earnestness. 

A man in earnest finds means, or, if he cannot 
find, creates them. 

422 William Ellery Channing : 

Address, Boston, Mass., September, 1838, 



DICTIONARY OF PROSE QUOTATIONS. 59 

Earth. 

Earth is here so kind, that just tickle her with a 
hoe and she laughs with a harvest. 

423 Douglas Jerrold : A Land of Plenty . 

[Australia.] 
Ease. 

Shall I not take mine ease in mine inn ? 

424 Shaks. : 1 Henry IV, Actiii., Sc. 3. 

Eating. 

We must eat to live, not live to eat. 

425 Fielding : The Miser, Act iii. 

Appetite comes with eating, says Angeston. 

426 Rabelais: Works, Bk. i., Ch. 5. 

They are as sick, that surfeit with too much, as 
they that starve with nothing. 

427 Shaks. : M. of Venice, Act L, Sc. 2. 

Ebony. 

But our captain counts the image of God — nev- 
ertheless his imao;e — cut in ebonv as if done in 
ivory, and in the blackest Moors he sees the rep- 
resentation of the King of Heaven. 

428 Thomas Fuller : The Good Sea-Captain. 

Eccentricity. 

Eccentricity has alwavs abounded when and 
where strength of character has abounded ; and 
the amount of eccentricity in a society has been 
proportional to the amount of genius, mental 
vigor, and moral courage it contained. That so 
few now dare to be eccentric, marks the chief 
dan o;er of the time. 

429 John Stuart Mill: On Liberty, Ch. 3. 



60 DICTIONARY OF PROSE QUOTATIONS. 

Echo. 

The shadow of a sound, — a voice without a 
mouth, and words without a tongue. 

430 Paul Chatfield, M.D. 
{Horace Smith) : The Tin Trumpet. Echo. 

Echo is the voice of a reflection in the mirror. 

431 Hawthorne: American Note-Books. 

Economy, 

Without care and method, the largest fortune 
will not, and with them almost the smallest will, 
supply all necessary expenses. 

432 Lord Chesterfield : Advice to His Son. 

A creative economy is the fuel of magnificence. 

433 Emerson: English Traits. Aristocracy. 

Economy comes too late when the coffers are 
empty. 

434 Seneca: Epistolae, i., 5. 

Education. 

What sculpture is to a block of marble, educa- 
tion is to an human soul. 

435 Addison: The Spectator. No. 215. 
Education is an ornament to the fortunate, a 

haven of refuge to the unfortunate. 

436 Democritus : Ethica, Fragment. 183. 
Education should be as broad as man. 

437 Emerson : 
Lectures and Biographical Sketches. 

I call, therefore, a complete and generous edu- 
cation, that which fits a man to perform justly, 
skilfully, and magnanimously, all the offices, both 
private and public, of peace and war. 

438 Milton : On Education, 



DICTIONARY OF PROSE QUOTATIONS. 61 

Egotism. 

The pest of society is egotists. 

439 Emerson: Conduct of Life. Culture. 

Egotism in print is not so insufferable as in 
close conversation. It is hard to escape from a 
garrulous bore at your elbow, but you can drop a 
paper or book instanter, or turn to a more promis- 
ing page, or sink in peaceful slumber, narcotized 
by the tedious narrative. 

440 Kate Sanborn: 
Abandoning An Adopted Farm, Ch. 2. 

Men are egotists, and not all tolerant of one 
man's self-hood ; they do not always deem the 
affinities elective. 

441 Stedman: Poets of America, Ch. 10. 

Walt Whitman. 
Elegance. 

I have missed the endearing elegance of female 
friendship. 

442 Dr. Johnson: Rasselas, Ch. 46. 

Eloquence. 

Eloquence shows the power and possibility of 
man. 

443 Emerson : Letters and Social Aims. 

Great eloquence we cannot get, except from 
human genius. 

444 Thomas Starr King : TJie While Hills. 

L ake Winn ip iseogee . 

True eloquence, indeed, does not consist in 
speech. It cannot be brought from far. Labor 
and learning may toil for it, but they will toil in 
vain. Words and phrases may be marshalled in 
every way, but they cannot compass it. It must 



62 DICTIONARY OF PROSE QUOTATIONS. 

consist in the man, in the subject, and in the oc- 
casion. 

445 Daniel Webster: 

Discourse, Faneuil Hall, Boston, Aug. 2, 1826. 

Emergencies. 

It is by presence of mind in untried emergencies 
that the native metal of a man is tested. 

446 Lowell: My Study Windows. 

Abraham Lincoln, 1864. 
Emotion. 

Sentiment is intellectualized emotion — emotion 
precipitated, as it were, in pretty crystals by the 
fancy. Lowell : Among My Books. 

447 Rousseau and the Sentimentalists. 

Emotion turning back on itself, and not leading; 
on to thought or action, is the element of madness. 

448 John Sterling : Essays and Tales. 
Thoughts. Crystals from a Cavern. II. 

Empire. 

The empire is peace. 

449 Louis Napoleon: Speech, Oct. 9, 1852. 

Employment. 

Employment, sir, and hardships prevent melan- 
choly. 

450 Dr. Johnson : BoswelVs Life of Johnson, 

Vol. vi., Ch. 9. 1777. 

The hand of little employment hath the daintier 
sense. 

451 Shaks. : Hamlet, Act v., Sc. 1. 

Employment gives health, sobriety, and morals. 
Constant employment and well-paid labor produce, 
in a country like ours, general prosjjerity, content, 



DICTIONARY OF PROSE QUOTATIONS. 63 

and cheerfulness. Thus happy have we seen the 
country. 

452 Daniel Webster: 
Speech, U. S. Senate, July 25-27, 1846. 

End. 

In everything one must consider the end. 

453 La Fontaine : 

The Fox and the Gnat. Fable 5. 
Endurance. 

My heart is wax moulded as she pleases, but en- 
during as marble to retain. 

454 Cervantes : The Little Gypsy. 

What cannot be cured must be endured. 

455 Rabelais: Works, Bk. v., Ch. 15. 

Enemies. 

The enemy is within the gates ; it is with our 
own luxury, our own folly, our own criminality 
that we have to contend. 

456 Cicero : In Catilinam, ii., 5, 11. 

Inflict not on an enemy every injury in your 
power, for he may afterwards become your friend. 

457 Saadi: The Gulistan, Ch. 8. 

Rules for Conduct in Life. No. 10. 

If we could read the secret history of our ene- 
mies, we should find in each man's life sorrow and 
suffering enough to disarm all hostility. 

458 Longeellow: Drift-Wood. Table Talk. 

Energy. 

Life is a species of energy, and each man ex- 
pends his energy in and about those things which 
chiefly delight him . 

459 Aristotle: Elhica Nicomachea, x., 4, 10. 



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England. 

The Continent will not suffer England to be the 
workshop of the Avorld. 

460 Disraeli (Earl of Beaconsfield) : 
Speech, House of Commons, March 15, 1838. 

England expects every man to do his duty. 

461 Horatio Kelson: 

Southey's Life of Nelson, Vol. ii., p. 131. 

Enough. 

Enough is as good as a feast. 

462 John Heywood: Proverbes, Pt. i., Ch. 11. 

Enterprise. 

The unbought grace of life, the cheap defence 
of nations, the nurse of manly sentiment and 
heroic enterprise is gone. 

463 Burke : Be flections on the Rev. in France. 

Enthusiasm. 

Enthusiasm is the height of man ; it is the pass- 
in £ from the human to the divine. 

464 Emerson : Lectures and Biographical 

Sketches. The Superlative. 

Enthusiasm begets enthusiasm. 

465 Longfellow: Hyperion, Bk. iii., Ch. 6. 

Envy. 

From envy, hatred, and malice, and all un- 
charitableness, Good Lord deliver us. 

466 Book of Common Prayer: The Litany. 

Envy feels not its own happiness but when it 
may be compared with the misery of others. 

467 Dr. Johnson: Basselas, Ch. 9. 



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Epitaphs. 

Let there be no inscription upon my tomb ; let 
no man write my epitaph : no man can write my 
epitaph. 

468 Robert Emmet : 
Speech on His Trial and Conviction for High 

Treason, September, 1803. 

After your death you were better have a bad 
epitaph than their ill report while you lived. 

469 Shaks. : Hamlet, Act ii., Sc. 2. 

Equality. 

We hold these truths to be self-evident : that all 
men are created equal ; that they are endowed by 
their Creator with certain inalienable rights ; that 
among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of 
happiness. 

470 Thomas Jefferson: 

Declaration of Independence, 
Equity. 

Equity is a roguish thing : for law we have a 
measure, know what to trust to : equity is accord- 
ing to the conscience of him that is chancellor, 
and as that is larger or narrower, so is equity. 
,r Tis all one as if they should make the standard 
for the measure we call a foot a chancellor^ foot ; 
what an uncertain measure would this be ! One 
chancellor has a long foot, another a short foot, a 
third an indifferent foot. Tis the same in the 
Chancellor's conscience. 

471 John Shelden: Table Talk. Equity. 

Equivocation. 

How absolute the knave is ! Ave must speak by 
the card, or equivocation will undo us. 

472 Shaks.: Hamlet, Act v., Sc. 1. 



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Error. 

Honest error is to be pitied, not ridiculed. 

473 Lord Chesterfield: Letters to His Bon. 

All men are liable to error, and most men are, 
in many points, by passion or interest, under 
temptation to it. Locke : 

474 Essay on the Human Understanding . 

Esteem. 

No man can have much kindness for him by 
whom he does not believe himself esteemed, and 
nothing so evidently proves esteem as imitation. 

475 Dr. Johnson: The Rambler. No. 99. 

Eternity. 

Eternity looks grander and kinder if Time grow 
meaner and more hostile. 

476 Carlyle: 
Thomas Carlyle, by Froude. Vol. ii., Ch. 14. 

44 Time restores all things. " Wrong! Time 
restores many things, but eternity restores all. 

477 Joseph Roux : 
Meditations of a Parish Priest. 

Ether. 

<< The earth loveth the shower, 1 ' and " the holy 
ether knoweth what love is." 

478 Marcus Aurelius : Meditations,*., 21. 

Events. 

Events of all sorts creep or fly exactly as God 
pleases. 

479 Cowper: Letters. To Lady Hesketh. 

Two rules we should always have ready, — that 
there is nothing good or evil save in the will ; and 
that we are not to lead events, but to follow them. 

480 Epictetus : 

In What Manner We Ought to Bear Sickness. 



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Evil. 

The evil implanted in man by nature spreads so 
imperceptibly, when the habit of wrong-doing is 
unchecked, that he himself can set no limit to his 
sham eless nes s. 

481 Cicero : In Yerrem, ii., 3, 76, 177. 

There is evil in every human heart, which may 
remain latent, perhaps, through the whole of life ; 
but circumstances may rouse it to activity. 

482 Hawthorne: American Note-Books, 1863. 

Recompense to no man evil for evil. Provide 
things honest in the sight of all men. 

483 New Testament: Romans xii. 17. 

Evolution. 

Evolution then, under its primary aspect, is a 
change from a less coherent form to a more co- 
herent form, consequent on the dissipation of 
motion and integration of matter. This is the 
universal process through which sensible exis- 
tences, individually and as a whole, pass during 
the ascending halves of their histories. 

484 Herbert Spencer : Synthetic Philosophy . 

First Principles. Ch. 14, Sec. 115. 

Example. 

Example is a school of mankind, and they will 
learn at no other. 

485 Burke : Letters on a Regicide Peace. 

Letter i., 1796. 

Example acquires tenfold authority when it 
speaks from the grave. 

486 Wendell Phillips : 

The Philosophy of the Abolition Movement. 



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Excess. 

Too much of a good thing. 

487 Shaks. : As You Like It, Act iv., Sc. 1. 

He does nothing who endeavors to do more than 
is allowed to humanity. 

488 Dr. Johnson: Rasselas, Ch. 29. 

Exercise. 

I take the true definition of exercise to be labor 
without weariness. 

489 Dr. Johnson : Boswell's Life of Johnson. 

IV. 151. Note 1. 
Exile. 

Exile is terrible to those who have, as it were, 
a circumscribed habitation ; but not to those who 
look upon the whole globe but as one city. 

490 Cicero : Paradoxes. II. 

(Edmonds, Translator.') 

Expectation. 

They that marry ancient people, merely in ex- 
pectation to bury them, hang themselves in hope 
that one will come and cut the halter. 

491 Thomas Fuller : Of Marriage. 

Expediency. 

Party honesty is party expediency. 

492 Grover Cleveland : 

Interview in New York Commercial Advertiser. 

Experience. 

" Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will 
learn in no other," as Poor Richard says, and 
scarcely in that; for it is true, " We may give ad- 
vice, but Ave cannot give conduct. 1 ' 

493 Benjamin Franklin : The Way to Wealth, 



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Experience makes us wise. 

494 Hazlitt: Table Talk. Second Series. 

On Novelty and Familiarity . 

The only faith that wears well and holds its 
color in all weathers, is that which is woven of 
conviction and set with the sharp mordant of ex- 
perience. 

495 Lowell: My Study Windows. 

Abraham Lincoln, 1864. 

Unless experience be a jewel ; that I have pur- 
chased at an infinite rate. 

496 Shaks. : Mer. W. ofW., Act ii., Sc. 2. 

Experiment. 

In the full tide of successful experiment. 

497 Thomas Jefferson: First Inaugural 

Address, March 4, 1801. 
Explanations. 

It is not explanations which survive, but the 
things which are explained; not theories, but the 
things about which we theorize. 

498 Kt. Hon. Arthur James Balfour: 

The Foundations of Belief. 
Eyes. 

Eyes bright, with many tears behind them. 

499 Carlyle : Reminiscences. 
Jane Welsh Carlyle. (Froude, Editor.) 

A suppressed resolve will betray itself in the 
eyes. 

500 George Eliot : The Mill on the Floss, 

Bk. iv., Ch. 14. 

I will not give sleep to mine eyes, or slumber 
to mine eyelids. 

oOl Old Testament: Psalm cxxxii. 4. 



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Fable. 

Among all the different ways of giving counsel, 
I think the finest and that which pleases the most 
universally is fable, in whatsoever shape it ap- 
pears. 

502 Addison: Spectator. No. 512. 

Fabric. 

I find there are many pieces in this one fabric of 
man. 

503 Sir Thomas Brown : Religio Medici, ii. 7. 

Fabrication. 

The very idea of the fabrication of a new gov- 
ernment is enough to fill us with disgust and 
horror. 

504 Burke: Revolution in France. 

Fabulous. 

Howsoever, it is more than apparent that the 
booke bearing Enoch's name is very fabulous. 

505 Purchas: Pilgrimage. 

Face. 

God has given you one face, and you make 
yourselves another. 

506 Shaks. : Hamlet, Act iii., Sc. 1. 

Facility. 

Facility is worse than bribery ; for bribes come 
but now and then ; but if importunity or idle 
respects lead a man, he shall never be without. 

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Faction. 

A spirit of faction, which is apt to mingle its 
poison in the deliberations of all bodies, will often 
hurry the persons of whom they are composed into 
improprieties and excesses for which they would 
blush in a private capacity. 

508 A. Hamilton: The Federalist. No. 15. 

Factors. 

Factors in the trading world are what ambas- 
sadors are in the politic world. 

509 Addison: The Royal Exchange. 

Facts. 

Facts are stubborn things. 

510 Elliot: Essays. Field Husbandry, 
1747. Le Sage: Oil Bias, Bk. x., Ch. 1. 

A world of facts lies outside and beyond the 
world of words. 

511 Huxley: Lay Sermons, p. 57. 

Faculty. 

Respect the faculty that forms thy judgments. 

512 Marcus Aurelius : Meditations, iii., 9. 

Fagots. 

There are fagots and fagots. 

513 Moliere : Le M&decin Malgre lui, 

Act i., Sc. 6. 

Failure. 

To fail at all is to fail utterly. 

514 Lowell: Among My Books. Dryden. 

The weakest goes to the wall. 

515 Shaks. : Rom. and Jul., Act i., Sc. 1 



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Fairness. 

I have let myself to another, even to the King 
of Princes ; and how can I with fairness go back 
with thee ? 

516 Bunyan: Pilgrim ] s Progress. 

Faith. 

Faith is love taking the form of aspiration. 

517 William Ellery Channing: 

Note-Book. Faith. 

A perfect faith would lift us absolutely above 
fear. 

518 George MacDonald: Sir Gibbie, Ch. 11. 

Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the 
evidence of things not seen. 

519 New Testament : Hebrews xi. 1. 

It is always right that a man should be able to 
render a reason for the faith that is within him. 

520 Sydney Smith: Memoir, Vol. i., p. 53. 

Faith is the force of life. 

521 Tolstoi: My Confession, Ch. 11. 

Falsehood. 

Falsehood is cowardice. 

522 Hosea Ballou: MS S. Sermons. 

Falsehood is for a season. 

523 Landor : Imaginary Conversations. 

William Penn and Lord Peterborough. 

Falsehood imperils, not alone by its credit, but 
also by its very discovery and exposure. If the 
utmost danger attends the believing of lies, some 
danger follows upon finding them out : to be de- 



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ceived and to be undeceived may be both, though 
not equally, injurious. 

524 D. A. Wasson: The Dangers of Discovery. 

Old and New, Vol. iv., p. 543. 

Fame. 

Fame, which is the opinion the world expresses 
of any man's excellent endowments, is the idol to 
which the finest spirits have in all ages burnt their 
incense. 

525 Sir Richard Blackmore : 

The Lay Monastery. No. 11. 

Fame, we may understand, is no sure test of 
merit, but only a probability of such : it is an ac- 
cident, not a property of a man. 

526 Carlyle: Essays. Goethe. {Foreign 

Review, 1828.) 

The temple of fame stands upon the grave ; the 
flame that burns upon its altars is kindled from 
the ashes of dead men. 

527 Hazlitt : Lectures on the English Poets. 

Lecture viii. 

If there be those who despise fame ; if of those 
who covet it he who desires fame for one thing 
despises it for another ; and if he who seeks fame 
with one sort despises it with another ; why may 
not I say that neither do I know how any fame can 
be called a good ? 

528 Shaftesbury : The Philosophic Regimen. 

Good and 111, p. 54. 

Familiarity. 

He calleth you by your Christian name, to im- 
ply that his other is the same with your own. He 
is too familiar by half, yet you wish he had less 
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pass for a casual dependent ; with more boldness 
he would be in no danger of being taken for what 
he is. Charles Lamb: Essays of Elia. 

529 Poor Relations. 

Family. 

There were but two families in the world, Have- 
much and Have-little. 

530 Cervantes: Don Quixote, Pt. ii., Ch. 20. 

Famine. 

Famine ends famine. 

531 Ben Jonson: Timber; or, Discoveries 

Made upon Men and Matter. 
Fancy. 

His [Burke's] imperial fancy has laid all Nature 
under tribute, and has collected riches from every 
scene of the creation and every walk of art. 

532 Robert Hall: Apology for the Freedom 

of the Press. 

The ancient superstitions furnished the fancy 
with beautiful images, but took no hold on the 
heart. 

533 Macaulay: Dante. 

Fantasy. 

Imagination, as it is too often misunderstood, is 
mere fantasy, the image-making power common 
to all who have the gift of dreams, or who can 
afford to buy it in a vulgar drug, as De Quincey 
bought it. Lowell : Among My Books. 

534 Shakespeare Once More. 

Farewell. 

The happy never say, and never hear said, 

farewell. Landor: Pericles and Asp asia. 

535 CCXXXV. Pericles to Aspasia. 



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Farming. 

Each man reaps on his own farm. 

536 Plautus: Mostellaria, Act iii., Sc. 2,112. 
Let ns never forget that the cultivation of the 

earth is the most important labor of man. 

537 Daniel Webster : Speech, Boston, 
Jan. 13, 1840. The Agriculture of England. 

Fascination. 

The gift of fascination, the power to charm when, 
where, and whom she would. 

538 Charlotte Bronte : Shirley, Ch. 9. 

Fashion. 

The fashion wears out more apparel than the 
man. 

539 Shaks. : Much Ado, Act iii., Sc. 3. 
Fashion is a potency in art, making it hard to 

judge between the temporary and the lasting. 

540 Stedman: Poets of America, Ch. 2. 

Fatalism. 

Fatalism says that something must be ; and this 
something cannot be modified by any modification 
of the conditions. George Henry Lewes: 

541 Problems of Life and Mind, Ch. 1. 

Fate. 

Fate is impenetrated causes. 

542 Emerson: Conduct of Life. Fate. 
Lucky he who has been educated to bear his 

fate, whatsoever it may be, by an early example 
of uprightness, aud a childish training in honor. 

543 Thackeray: Pendennis, Ch. 41. 

Fate is character. 

544 William Winter : The Stage Life of 

Mary Anderson. Pauline. 



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Father. 

A wise son maketh a glad father. 

545 Old Testament: Proverbs -k. 1. 
It is a wise father that knows his own child. 

546 Shaks. : M. of Venice, Act ii., Sc. 2, 

Fatness. 

But Jeshurun waxed fat, and kicked : thou art 
waxen fat, thou art grown thick, thou art covered 
with fatness. 

547 Old Testament : Deuteronomy xxxii. 15. 

Fat, fair, and forty. 

548 Walter Scott : St. Ronatfs Well, Ch. 7. 
There live not three good men unhanged in Eng- 
land ; and one of them is fat and grows old. 

549 Shaks. : 1 Henry IV, Act ii., Sc. 4. 

Faults. 

The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be 
conscious of none. 

550 Carlyle : Heroes and Hero Worship. 

The Hero as Prophet. 
All his faults are such that one loves him still 
the better for them. 

551 Goldsmith: The Oood-Natured Man, Act i. 

Favors. 

He only confers favors generously who appears, 
when they are once conferred, to remember them 
no more. 

552 Dr. Johnson: Works. IX. 467. 

(Oxford Edition, 1825.) 

The gratitude of place-expectants is a lively 
sense of future favors. 

553 Sir Robert Walpole. 



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Fear. 

Men fear death as children fear to go in the 
dark ; and as that natural fear in children is in- 
creased with tales, so is the other. 

554 Bacon : Essays of Death. 

The concessions of the weak are the concessions 
of fear. 

555 Burke: Speech, March 22, 1775. 

Conciliation with America. 

Fear always springs from ignorance. 

556 Emerson: Miscellanies. Am. Scholar. 
There is no fear in love ; but perfect love casteth 

out fear. 

557 New Testament: lJohniv. 18. 

Feast. 

Enough is equal to a feast. 

558 Fielding : The Convent Garden Tragedy, 

Act v., Sc. 1. 

• Small cheer and great welcome makes a merry 
feast. 

559 Shaks. : Com. of Errors, Act iii., Sc. 1. 

Features. 

The human features and countenance, although 
composed of but some ten parts or little more, are 
so fashioned that among so many thousands of 
men there are no two in existence who cannot be 
distinguished from one another. 

560 Pliny the Elder : Natural History, 

Bk. vii., Sec. 8. 
Feeling. 

Feeling comes before reflection. 

561 Hugh R. FLwveis : Speech in Season, 

Bk. i. 



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Fellow. 

If he be not fellow with the best king, thon 
shalt find the best king of good fellows. 

dQ2 Shaks. : Henry V., Act v., Sc. 2. 

Fellowship. 

Fellowship is heaven, and lack of fellowship is 
hell : fellowship is life, and lack of fellowship is 
death : and the deeds that ye do upon the earth, it 
is for fellowship's sake that ye do them. 

563 William Morris : A Dream of John Ball. 

Fiction. 

The most influential books, and the truest in 
their influence, are works of fiction. . . . They 
repeat, they re-arrange, they clarify the lessons of 
life : they disengage us from ourselves, they con- 
strain us to the acquaintance of others; and they 
show us the web of experience, but with a singu- 
lar change, — that monstrous, consuming ego of 
ours being, nonce, struck out. 

564 Robert Louis Stevenson: 
Books Which Have Influenced Me. 

Fields. 

His nose was as sharp as a pen, and a' babbled 
of green fields. 

565 Shaks. : Henry V., Act ii., Sc. 3. 



Finery. 

Many a one, for the sake of finery on the back, 
has gone with a hungry belly, and half-starved 
their families. " Silks and satins, scarlets and 
velvets, put out the kitchen fire," as Poor Eichard 
says. 

566 Benjamin Franklin: 

The Way to Wealth. 



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Fire. 

The most tangible of all visible mysteries, — 

fire. 

567 Leigh Hunt : Table Talk. 

There can no great smoke arise, but there must 
be some fire. 

568 Lyly: Enphues and his Euphcebus, p. 153. 
Thou didst swear to me upon a parcel-gilt 

goblet, sitting in my Dolphin-chamber, at the 
round table, by a sea-coal fire, upon Wednesday 
in AVheeson-week. 

569 Shaks. : 2 Henry IV., Act ii., Sc. 1. 

Firmament. 

The heavens declare the glory of God ; and the 
firmament showeth his handiwork. 

570 Old Testament: Psalm xix. 1. 

Fishing. 

I shall stay him no longer than to wish him a 
rainy evening to read this following discourse ; 
and that if he be an honest angler, the east wind 
may never blow when he goes a fishing. 

571 Izaak Walton: The Complete Angler. 

Author's Preface. 
Flatterers. 

It is better to fall amongst crows than amongst 
flatterers ; for the former wait till we are dead, 
the latter eat us alive. 

572 Antisthenes. {Diogenes Laertius, 

vi., 1, 4, 4.) 
Flattery. 

Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the 
giver ; and adulation is not of more service to the 
people than to kings. 

573 Burke : Reflections on the Eev. in- France. 



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Imitation is the sincerest of flattery. 

574 Colton: Lacon. 
It is easier and handier for men to flatter than 

to praise. Bichter: Titan, Cycle 34. 

575 (Brooks, Translator.) 
Flesh. 

The spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is 
weak. 

576 New Testament: Matthew xxvi. 41. 
I saw him now going the way of all flesh. 

577 John Webster: 
Westward Hoe, Act ii., Sc. 2. 

Flirtation. 

What we find the least of in flirtation is love. 

578 La Rochefoucauld: 
Beflections, or Sentences and Moral Maxims. 

Flowers. 

And because the breath of flowers is far sweeter 
in the air (where it comes and goes, like the war- 
bling of music) than in the hand, therefore nothing 
is more fit for that delight than to know what be 
the flowers and plants that do best perfume the 
air. 

579 Bacon : Essays. Of Gardens. 
Flowers are the sweetest things that God ever 

made and forgot to put a soul into. 

580 Henry Ward Beecher: Life Thoughts. 

The Amen ! of Nature is always a flower. 

581 Holmes: 

The Autocrat of the Breakfast- Table, Ch. 10. 

I have here only made a nosegay of culled 
flowers, and have brought nothing of mine own 
but the thread that ties them together. 

582 Montaigne: Bk. iii., Ch. 12. 

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There are crowds who trample a flower into the 
dust without once thinking that they have one of 
the sweetest thoughts of God under their heel. 

583 Timothy Titcomb (J. G. Holland) : 

Gold-Foil. III. Patience. 
Folly. 

Who lives without folly is not so wise as he 
thinks . 

584 La Rochefoucauld : 
Reflections ; or, Sentences and Moral Maxims. 

Answer a fool according to his folly. 

585 Old Testament: Proverbs xxvi. 5. 

Fools. 

I am a fool, I know it; and yet, God help me, 
I'm poor enough to be a wit. 

586 Congreve: Love for Love, Act i., Sc. 1. 

Tricks and treachery are the practice of fools 
that have not wit enough to be honest. 

587 Benjamin Franklin : Poor Richard's Al. 

Young men think old men fools, and old men 
know young men to be so. 

588 Metcalf : Quoted by Camden. 
Better a witty fool, than a foolish wit. 

589 Shaks. : Tw. Night, Act i., Sc. 5. 

Forbearance. 

There is, however, a limit at which forbearance 
ceases to be a virtue. 

590 Burke : Observations on a Late Publica- 

tion on the Present State of the Nation. 
Force. 

The sole truth which transcends experience by 
underlying it, is thus the Persistence of Force. 
This being the basis of experience, must be the 



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basis of any scientific organization of experiences. 
To this an ultimate analysis brings us down ; and 
on this a rational synthesis must build up. 

591 Herbert Spencer : Synthetic Philosophy. 

First Principles, Ch. 6, Sec. 62. 
Foresight. 

The first years of man must make provision for 
the last. 

592 Dr. Johnson: Basselas, Ch. 17. 

Foretelling. 

A cunning mathematician, penetrating the cubic 
weight of stars, predicts the planet which eyes 
have never seen. 

593 Emerson: Essays. Courage. 

Forgetfulness. 

There is no remembrance which time does not 
obliterate, nor pain which death does not terminate. 

594 Cervantes: Don Quixote, Pt. i., Bk. iii., 

Ch. 15. (Jarvis, Translator .) 

Oh, if, in being forgotten, w T e could only forget! 

595 Lew Wallace: Ben Eur, Bk. iii., Ch. 3. 

Forgiveness. 

"Forgiveness," said Mr. Pecksniff, "entire 
and pure forgiveness, is not incompatible with a 
wounded heart; perchance when the heart is 
wounded, it becomes a greater virtue. With my 
breast still wrung and grieved to its inmost core 
by the ingratitude of that person, I am proud and 
glad to say, that I forgive him." 

596 Dickens: Martin Chuzzlewit, Ch. 2. 

Of him that hopes to be forgiven it is indispens- 
ably required that he forgive. It is, therefore, 
superfluous to urge any other motive. On this 



DICTIONARY OF PROSE QUOTATIONS. 83 

great duty eternity is suspended, and to him that 
refuses to practise it, the throne of mercy is inac- 
cessible, and the Saviour of the world has been 
born in vain. 

597 Dr. Johnson: The Rambler. Xo. 185. 

We may forgive those who bore us, we cannot 
forgive those whom we bore. 

598 La Rochefoucauld : Reflections ; 
or, Sentences and Moral Maxims. jSTo. 30-1. 

Formulas. 

Formulas too, as we call them, have a reality 
in Human Life. They are real as the very skin 
and muscular tissue of a Man's Life ; and a most 
blessed indispensable thing, so long as they have 
vitality withal, and are a living skin and tissue to 
him 

599 Carlyue : Past and Present. Beginnings. 

Fortitude. 

Where true fortitude dwells, loyalty, bounty, 
friendship, and fidelity may be found. A man 
may confide in persons constituted for noble ends, 
who dare do and suffer, and who have a hand to 
barn for their country and their friend. Small 
and creeping things are the product of petty souls. 

600 Sir Thomas Browne : Christian Morals. 

Pt. i., Sec. 36. 
Fortune. 

Fortune makes him a fool, whom she makes her 
darling. Bacon: Moral and Historical Works. 

601 Ornamenta Rationalia. 
Fortune reigns in gifts of the world, not in the 

lineaments of nature. 

602 Shaks. : As You Like It, Act i., Sc. 2. 



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Fortune has often been blamed for her blind- 
ness ; but fortune is not so blind as men are. 

603 Samuel Smiles : Self-Help, Ch. 3. 

Fortune-telling. 

We are simple men ; we do not know what's 
brought to pass under the profession of Fortune- 
telling. 

604 Shaks. : Mer. W. of W., Act iv., Sc. 2. 

Foundation. 

I cannot but think that the foundations of all 
natural knowledge were laid when the reason of 
man first came face to face with the facts of nature. 

605 Huxley: Lay Sermons, p. 11. 

Frailty. 

It is yet a higher speech of his than the other, 
< < It is true greatness to have in one the frailty of 
a man and the security of a god.'" 

606 Bacon-: Essays. Of Adversity . 

Frankness. 

He that openly tells his friends all that he thinks 
of them, must expect that they will secretly tell 
his enemies much that they do not think of him. 

607 Colton: Lacon. 

Frederick of Prussia said with commendable 
frankness that he always found the god of battles 
on the side of the strongest regiments. 

608 Charles Sumner : Orations, i., 53. 

Fraternity. 

The first aspect in which Christianity presented 
itself to the world was as a declaration of the 
fraternity of men in Christ. 

609 Lecky: European Morals, Ch. 2. 



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Fraud. 

Whoever has even once become notorious by 
base fraud, even if he speaks the truth, gains no 
belief. 

610 Phaedrus: Bk. L, Fable 10, 1. 

Freedom. 

Freedom is not caprice, but room to enlarge. 

611 C. A. Bartol: Radical Problems. 

Freedom is a new religion, the religion of our 
time. 

612 Heine: English Fragments. 

In giving freedom to the slave we assure freedom 
to the free — honorable alike in what we give and 
what we preserve. 

613 Abraham Lincoln : Conclusion, Second 

Annual Message to Congress. 

That this nation, under God, shall have a new 
birth of freedom, and that government of the 
people, by the people, for the people, shall not 
perish from the earth. 

614 Lincoln: Speech at Gettysburg, 1863. 
The man is free who is protected from injury. 

615 Daniel Webster: Speech, May 10, 

1847. Dinner of Charlestown Bar. 
Freemen 

Slavery is but half abolished, emancipation is 
but half completed, while millions of freemen with 
votes in their hands are left without education. 

616 Robert C. Winthrop: Yorktoion, 1881. 

Frenchmen. 

A Frenchman must be always talking, whether 
he knows anything of the matter or not. 

617 Dr. Johnson: BoswelVs Life of Johnson. 



86 DICTIONARY OF PROSE QUOTATIONS. 

Fretfulness, 

Fretfulness of temper, too, will generally char- 
acterize those who are negligent of order. 

618 H. Blair: Works, m, 1. 

Friends. 

For his friend is another self. 

619 Aristotle : Ethics, Bk. ix., Ch. 5. 

(Browne, Trans.} 

If he have not a friend, he may quit the stage. 

620 Bacon : Essays. Of Friendship. 

The place where two friends first met is sacred 
to them all through their friendship, all the more 
sacred as their friendship deepens and grows old. 

621 Phillips Brooks : Sermons. 

The Young and Old Christian. 

A beloved friend does not fill one part of the 
soul, but, penetrating the whole, becomes con- 
nected with all feeling. 

622 William Ellery Channing : 

Note-Book. Friendship. 

Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing. 

623 Benjamin Franklin : Poor Richard's Al. 

Forsake not an old friend, for the new is not com- 
parable unto him. A new friend is as new wine: 
when it is old thou shalt drink it with pleasure. 

624 Old Testament: Ecclesiasticusix., 10. 

Nothing is there more friendly to a man than a 
friend in need. 

625 Plautus : Epidicus, Act iii., Sc. 3, 44. 
Treat your friend as if he might become an 

enemy. 

626 Publius Syrus : Maxim 401. 



DICTIONARY OF PROSE QUOTATIONS. 87 

Choose a good, disagreeable friend, if you be 
wise — a surly, steady, economical, rigid fellow. 
• 627 Thackeray : Sketches and Travels in 

London. On Friendship . 

The most I can do for my friend is simply to be 
his friend. Henry D. Thoreau : Winter. 

628 Journal, Feb. 7, 1841. 

Friendship. 

Friendship is a plant that loves the sun, thrives 
ill under clouds. 

629 A. Bronson Alcott : Concord Days. 

June. Letters. 

True friendship is like sound health, the value 
of it is seldom known until it be lost. 

680 Colton: Lacon. 

One glory is reserved for literary friendship. 
The friendship of a great name indicates the great- 
ness of the character who appeals to it. 

631 Isaac Disraeli: Literally Char., Ch. 19. 

That friendship only is, indeed, genuine when 
two friends, without speaking a word to each 
other, can, nevertheless, find happiness in being 
together. 

632 George Ebers : Homo Sum, Ch. 7. 

(Clara Bell, Translator.} 

Friendship is seldom lasting, but between equals, 
or where the superiority on one side is reduced by 
some equivalent advantage on the other. 

633 Dr. Johnson : The Rambler. No. 64. 

Fright. 

You frighten me out of my seven senses ! 

634 Savift : Polite Conversation. 



88 DICTIONARY OF PROSE QUOTATIONS. 

Friskiness. 

Lambs in the spring show ns that the friskiness 
of one is a cause of friskiness in those near it — if 
one leaps others leap. Herbert Spencer: 

635 Principles of Psychology, Sec. 506. 

Frolicsomeness. 

All light and smiles, and frolicsome as the 
young fawns. 

636 Edgar Allan Poe : Tales, i. 

Fruitfulness. 

The flowers of life are but visionary. How 
many pass away and leave no trace behind ! How 
few yield any fruit, — and the fruit itself, how 
rarely does it ripen ! And yet there are flowers 
enough ; and is it not strange, my friend, that we 
should suffer the little that does really ripen to rot, 
decay, and perish unenjoyed ? 

637 Goethe : Sorroivs of Weigher. 

Fullness. 

When God hath made us smart for our fullness 
and wantonness, then we grew sullen, and mur- 
mured and disputed against Providence. 

638 Stillingfleet : Sermons. 

Fun. 

That fun, the most English of qualities, which 
does not reach the height of humor, yet over- 
whelms even gravity itself with a laughter in 
which there is no sting or bitterness. 

639 Mrs. Oliphant : Sheridan. 

Fussiness. 

She was fussy, no doubt, but her real activity 
bore a fair proportion to her fussiness. 

640 JMarryat : Snarleyyow. 



DICTIONARY OF PROSE QUOTATIONS. 89 

Futility. 

We have too much experience of the futility of 
an easy reliance on the momentary good disposi- 
tion of the public, 

641 Emerson : American Civilization. 

Futurity. 

Futurity is the great concern of mankind. 

642 Burke : Abridgment of English History , 

Bk. i., Ch. 2. 

The future is lighted for us with the radiant 
colors of hope. 

643 John Fiske : The Destiny of Man. 
XVI. The Question as to a Future Life. 

We know what we are, but know not what we 
may be. 

644 Shaks. : Hamlet, Activ,, Sc. 5. 



G. 

Gab. 

I always knew you had the gift of gab, of 
course, but I never believed you were half the 
man you are. 

645 Dickens: Martin Chuzzlewit, Ch. 27. 

Gabbling. 

Barbarians, who are in every respect scarce one 
degree above brutes, having no language among 

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them, but a confused gabbling, which is well 

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understood neither by themselves or others. 

646 Addison: Spectator. JSTo. 389. 

Gagging. 

The time was not yet come when eloquence was 
to be gagged, and reason to be hoodwinked. 

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647 Macaulay: Essays. Machiavclli. 



90 DICTIONARY OF PROSE QUOTATIONS. 

Gain. 

To live is Christ, and to die is gain. 

648 New Testament: Philippians, i. 21. 
What comes from this quarter, set it down as so 

much gain. Terence : Adelphoe, 

649 Act v., Sc. 3, 30. (816.) 

Gallantry. 

I take the gallantry of private soldiers to pro- 
ceed from the same if not from a nobler impulse 
than that of gentlemen and officers. 

650 Steele: Toiler. No. 87. 

Gallows. 

1 Clo. What is he that builds stronger than 
either the mason, the shipwright, or the carpenter ? 

2 Clo. The gallows-maker; for that frame out- 
lives a thousand tenants. 

651 Shaks. : Hamlet, Act v., Sc. 1. 

Gambling. 

Gambling with cards, or dice, or stocks, is all 
one thing, — it is getting money without giving an 
equivalent for it. 

652 Henry Ward Beecher: Proverbs. 

This is a vice which is productive of every pos- 
sible evil, equally injurious to the morals and 
health of its votaries. It is the child of avarice, 
the brother of iniquity, and the father of mischief. 

653 George Washington: 
Letter, Newburgh, Jan. 15, 1783. 

Gardeners. 

There is no ancient gentlemen but gardeners, 
ditchers, and grave-makers ; they hold up Adam's 
profession. 

Q54: Shaks. : Hamlet, Act v., Sc. 1. 



DICTIONARY OF PROSE QUOTATIONS. 91 

Gardens. 

God Almighty first planted a garden ; and, 
indeed, it is the purest of human pleasures, it is 
the greatest refreshment to the spirits of man, 
without which buildings and palaces are but gross 
handiwork ; and a man shall ever see that when 
ages grow to civility and elegancy, men come to 
build stately, sooner than to garden finely ; as if 
gardening were the greater perfection. 

655 Bacon: Essays. Of Gardens. 

Garret. 

My Lord St. Albans said that Nature did never 
put her precious jewels into a garret four stories 
high, and therefore that exceeding tall men had 
ever very empty heads. 

656 Bacon: Apothegms. No. 17. 

Gathering. 

I'll make a gathering for him, I a purse, and 
put the poor slave in fresh rags. 

657 Ben Jonson: Poetaster, iii., 1. 

Gayety. 

His death [Garrick's] eclipsed the gayety of 
nations, and impoverished the public stock of 
harmless pleasure. 

658 Dr. Johnson : Life of Edmund Smith. 

General. 

Saturninus said, "Comrades, you have lost a 
good captain to make him an ill general." 

659 Montaigne: Works, Bk. iii., Ch. 9. 

Of Vanity. 



92 DICTIONARY OF PROSE QUOTATIONS. 

Generalities. 

Its constitution the g;litterin°; and sounding' gen- 
eralities of natural right which make up the 
Declaration of Independence. 

660 Rufus Choate: 
Letter to the Maine Whig Committee, 1856. 

Generation. 

Venerable men ! you have come down to us 
from a former generation. Heaven has bounteously 
lengthened out your lives, that you might behold 
this joyous day. Daniel Webster : 

661 Address on Laying the Corner-stone of 

Bunker-Hill Monument, 1825. 

Generosity. 

True generosity is a duty as indispensably ne- 
cessary as those imposed upon us by the law. It 
is a rule imposed upon us by reason, which should 
be the sovereign law of a rational being. 

662 Goldsmith: The Bee. No. 3. 

Generosity is the flower of justice. 

663 Hawthorne : American Note-Books. 1850. 

What is called generosity is generally only the 
vanity of giving, which we like better than what 
we give. 

664 La Rochefoucauld: Maxims ( ?), 263. 

Generosity once aroused cannot remain inactive, 
for it is a quality whose beauties are enhanced by 
its exercise. 

665 Pliny the Younger: Epistolce, v., 12. 

Genius. 

To do what is impossible for talent is the mark 
of genius. Amiel : Journal, Oct. 27, 1856. 

666 {Mrs. Humphrey Ward, Translator,) 



DICTIONARY OF PROSE QUOTATIONS. 93 

Genius is mainly an affair of energy. 

667 Matthew Arnold : Essays in Criticism. 
Genius studies the causal thought, and far back 

in the womb of things sees the rays parting from 
one orb, that diverge, ere they fall, by infinite 
diameters. 

668 Emerson: Essays. History. 

That genius is feeble which cannot hold its own 
before the masterpieces of the world. 

669 T. W. Higglnson: Atlantic Essays. 

A Plea for Culture (1867). 
We measure genius by quality, not by quantity. 

670 Wendell Phillips : Orations, Speeches, 
Lectures and Letters. Toussaint HOuverture. 

Genius inspires this thirst for fame ; there is no 
blessing undesired by those to whom Heaven gave 
the means of winning it. 

671 Mme. de Stael: Corinne, Bk. xvi., Ch. 1. 
Gentility. 

In the elder English dramatists . . . there is a 
constant recognition of gentility, as if a noble 
behavior were as easily marked in the society of 
their age as color is in our American population. 

672 Emerson: Essays. 

Neither did they establish their claims to gen- 
tility at the expense of their tailors — for as yet 
those offenders against the pockets of society and 
the tranquillity of all aspiring young gentlemen 
were unknown in New Amsterdam. 

673 Irving : History of New York. 

Gentleman. 

The gentleman is a Christian product. 

674 George H. Calvert: 

The Gentleman, Ch. 10. 



94 DICTIONARY OF PROSE QUOTATIONS. 

A man may learn from his Bible to be a more 
thorough gentleman than if he had been brought 
up in all the drawing-rooms in London. 

675 Charles Kingsley: Water Babies, Ch. 3. 
A gentleman born, master parson ; who writes 

himself armigero ; in any bill, warrant, quittance, 
or obligation, armigero. 

676 Shaks. : Mer. W. of W., Act i., Sc. 1. 

Gentleness. 

It is only people who possess firmness who can 
possess true gentleness. In those who appear 
gentle it is generally only weakness, which is 
readily converted into harshness. 

677 La Rochefoucauld : Reflections. Xo. 479. 

Gentle w oman. 

If this had not been a gentlewoman, she should 
have been buried out of Christian burial. 

678 Shaks. : Hamlet, Act v., Sc. 1. 

Gentry. 

Families amongst the gentry or what on the con- 
tinent would be called the lower nobility, that re- 
membered with love the solemn ritual and services 
of the Romish Church. 

679 De Quixcey: Secret Societies, Ch. 1. 

Reader, if thou meetest one of these small gen- 
try in thy early rambles, it is good to give him a 
penny. Charles Lamb : Essays of E 'lice. 

680 Chimney Sweepers. 

Genuineness. 

It is the " one thing needful," this genuineness; 
work in which it is found has value : other work 
has no right to exist, and had better be destroyed. 

681 J. R. Seeley: Natural Religion, p. 155. 



DICTIONARY OF PROSE QUOTATIONS. 95 

Gesture. 

The natural language of gesture is God's lan- 
oria^e. We did not invent it. Surely natural 
lano;uao;e is the lano*ua°'e of nature ; and these 
gestures which make us hang the head, and give 
us the erect attitude, are proclamations made, not 
by the will of man, but by the will of that Power 
which has co-ordinated all things, and given them 
harmony with each other, and never causes an in- 
stinct to utter a lie. 

682 Joseph Cook: Boston Monday Lectures. 
Conscience. Phys. Tangibleness of the Moral Law. 

Gettings. 

To my great discontent do find that my gettings 
this year have been £573 less than my last. 

683 Pepys : Diary. 

Ghastliness. 

The cold and ghastly moon glancing through 
bars of cloud at a wreck just sinking. 

68± Charlotte Broxte : Jane Eyre, Ch. 1. 

Ghosts. 

Ghosts are almost the first oriess of the savage, 
almost the last infirmity of the civilized imagina- 
tion ; on these forms, shadowy and unsubstantial 
as they are, solid superstructures of ritual and 
morality have been based, and apparitions, with 
the consequences of the belief in them, have a liter- 
ature and a history of their own. 

685 Andrew Lang : Apparitioiis. 

Encyclopaedia Britannic a . 

True love is like ghosts, which everybody talks 
about and few have seen. 

686 La Rochefoucauld : Maxim 76. 



96 DICTIONARY OF PROSE QUOTATIONS. 

Giants. 

There were giants in the earth in those clays. 

687 Old Testament : Genesis vi. 4. 
Gibberish. 

He that applies his names to ideas different 
from their common use . . . speaks gibberish. 

688 Locke: Human Under standing, iii., x., 31. 
Gibbets. 

A mad fellow met me on the way and told me I 
had unloaded all the gibbets and pressed the dead 
bodies. >To eye hath seen such scarecrows. 

689 Shaks. : 1 Henry IV., Act iv., Sc. 2. 
Gifts. 

The only gift is a portion of thyself. . . . 
Therefore the poet brings his poem ; the shepherd, 
his lamb ; the farmer, corn ; the miner, a gem ; 
the sailor, coral and shells ; the painter, his pic- 
ture ; the girl, a handkerchief of her own sewing. 

690 Emerson: Essays. Gifts. 

Seven hundred pounds and possibilities is good 
gifts. 

691 Shaks. : Mer. W. of W., Act i., Sc. 1. 
Girls. 

You cannot hammer a girl into anything. She 

grows as a flower does, — she will wither without 

sun ; she will decay in her sheath as a narcissus 

will if you do not give her air enough ; she may 

fall and defile her head in dust if you leave her 

without help at some moments of her life ; but you 

cannot fetter her ; she must take her own fair 

form and way if she take any, and in mind as in 

body must have always — 

" Her household motions light and free, 
And steps of virgin liberty." 

692 Euskin : Sesame and Lilies. 



DICTIONARY OF PROSE QUOTATIONS. 97 

Giving. 

The head as well as the heart is needed in giv- 
ing; and giving is a training for one's brain as well 
as for one's feelings. 

693 Dr. Watson ("Ian Maclaren ") : 

Church Folks, Ch. 8. 
Gladness. 

Gladness of heart is the life of man, and the joy- 
fulness of a man prolongeth his days. 

694 Old Testament : Ecclesiaslicas xxx. 22. 

Glory. 

True glory lies in noble deeds, and in the recog- 
nition, alike by leading men and by the nation at 
large, of valuable services rendered to the State. 

695 Cicero : Philippica, i., 12, 29. 

No path of flowers leads to glory. 

696 La Fontaine; Bk. x., Fable 14. 

Avoid shame, but do not seek glory, — nothing 
so expensive as glory. 

697 Sydney Smith: Memoir, Vol. i., p. 88. 

God. 

God is a being who gives everything but punish- 
ment in over measure. 

698 Henry Ward Beecher : Life TJwughts. 

God deceiveth thee not. 

699 Thomas a Kempis : Imitation of Christ, 

Bk. iv., Ch. 18. {Benham, Translator.) 

God alone is true ; God alone is great : alone 
is God. Laboulaye : Abdallah, Ch. 7. 

700 {Mary L. Booth, Translator.) 

God alone is entirely exempt from all want : of 
human virtues, that which needs least is the most 
absolute and divine. Plutarch: Lives. 

701 AHstides and Marcus Cato. 



98 DICTIONARY OF PROSE QUOTATIONS. 

Our God is a household God, as well as a 
heavenly one. He has an altar in every man's 
dwelling ; let men look to it when the}' rend it 
lightly, and pour out its ashes. 

702 Rdskin: The Siren Lamps of 

Architecture, Ch. 6, No*. 3. 

If there were no God, it would be necessary 
to invent him. 

703 Voltaire: Epitre a VAuieur rfu Livre 

des Trois Imposteurs, exi. 

Gods. 

He whom the gods favor dies young, while he 
is in his health, has his senses and his judgment 
sound. PLAUTUS: Baechides, 

704 Activ., Se. 7. (BUey, Trans.y 

Gold. 

Why, give him gold enough and marry him to 
a puppet, or an aglet-baby ; or an old trot with 
ne'er a tooth in her head . . . Why, nothing 
comes amiss, so money comes withal. 

705 Shaks. : Tarn, of the S., Act i., Sc. 2. 

Goldsmith. 

Goldsmith, however, was a man who whatever he 
wrote, did it better than any other man could do. 

706 Dr. Johnson: BoswelPs Life of Johnson, 

Vol. vii., Ch. 3. 1778. 

Good. 

Xever be afraid of what is o-ood ; the £'ood is 
always the road to what is true. 

707 HA3IERTOX: Modem Frenchmen. 

Henri Perreijre. 

1 Menander has a sentence to this effect : " He whom the 

gods love, dies young." 



DICTIONARY OF PROSE QUOTATIONS. 99 

Hearkeners, we say, seldom hear good of 
themselves. Matthew Henry: 

708 Commentaries. Ecclesiastes vii. 
Be not overcome by evil, but overcome evil with 

good. 

709 New Testament : Ramans xii. 21. 

Good-breeding. 

Good-breeding has been very justly defined to 
be the result of much good sense, some good- 
nature, and a little self-denial for the sake of 
others, and with a view to obtain the same indul- 
gence from them. Lord Chesterfield : 

710 Advice to His Son. Good-Breeding . 

Good-fell owship. 

There's neither honesty, manhood, nor good- 
fellowship in thee. 

711 Shaks. : 1 Henry IV., Act i., Sc. 2. 

Good-fortune. 

A man is never so on trial as hi the moment of 
excessive good-fortune. 

712 Lew Wallace: Ben Hur, Bk. v., Ch. 7. 

Good-nature. 

Good-nature is one of the richest fruits of true 

Christianity. Henry Ward Beecher : 

713 Pro ve rbs from Plym o u th Pu Ip it . 

Goodness. 

Goodness lies in abstaining not merely from 
injustice, but from the desire for injustice. 

714 Democritfs: Ethica, Fragment 38 (109). 

Your goodness must have some edge to it, — 
else it is none. 

715 Emersox : Essays. Self- Reliance. 

LofC. 



100 DICTIONARY OF PROSE QUOTATIONS. 

Goodness does not more certainly make men 
happy than happiness makes them good. 

716 Landor : Imaginary Conversations. 

Lord Brooke and Sir Philip Sidney. 
Gossip. 

Half the gossip of society would perish if the 
books that are truly worth reading were but read. 

717 George Dawson: Address, at Opening 

the Birmingham Free Library . 

Tale-bearers, as I said before, are just as bad 
as the tale-makers. 

718 Sheridan: The School for Scandal, 

Act i., Sc. 1. 
Government. 

The essence of a free government consists in an 
effectual control of rivalries. 

719 John Adams: Discourses on Davila. 

Government is a contrivance of human wisdom 
to provide for human wants. Men have a right 
that these wants should be provided for by this 
wisdom. 

720 Burke : Reflections on the Bev. in France. 
All free governments are party governments. 

721 Garfield: The Works of James Abram 

Garfield. House of Representatives. 
The freedom of a government does not depend 
upon the quality of its laws, but upon the power 
that has the right to create them. 

722 Thaddeus Stevens: 
Speech, House of Representatives, Jan. 3, 1867. 

The aggregate happiness of society, which is 
best promoted by the practice of a virtuous policy, 
is, or ought to be, the end of all government. 

723 George Washington : Political Maxims. 



DICTIONARY OF PROSE QUOTATIONS. 101 

Whatever government is not a government of 
laws is a despotism, let it be called what it may. 

724 Daniel Webster : Speech, Aug. 25, 1835. 

Reception, Bangor, 31c. 
Grace. 

Let your speech be alway with grace, seasoned 
with salt. 

725 New Testament : Colossians iv. 6. 

Grandeur. 

Grandeur has a heavy tax to pay. 

726 Alexander Smith : 
Dreamthorp. On the Writing of Essays. 

Gratitude. 

Gratitude is a soil on which joy thrives. 

727 Auerbach: On the Heights. 

{Bennett, Translator .) 

Justice is often pale and melancholy : but Grat- 
itude, her daughter, is constantlv in the now of 
spirits and the bloom of loveliness. 

728 Laxdor : Imaginary Conversations. 

David Hume and John Home. 
Grave. 

I would rather sleep in the southern comer of a 
little country churchyard, than in the tomb of the 
Capulets. Burke: 

729 Letter. To Matthew Smith. 
I shall be as secret as the grave. 

730 Cervantes: Don Quixote, Pt. ii., Ch. 62. 

Gravity. 

Gravity is the ballast of the soul, which keeps 
the mind steadv. It is either true or counterfeit. 

731 Thomas Fuller: 
The Holy State. Of Gravity. 



102 DICTIONARY OF PROSE QUOTATIONS. 

What doth gravity out of his bed at midnight ? 

732 Shaks. : 1 Henry IV., Act ii., Sc. 4. 

'Tis not for gravity to play at cherrypit with 
Satan. Shaks. : 

733 Tw. Night, Act iii., Sc. 4. 

The gravity and tenrperance of the Mussulman 
are doubtless congenial to the dignity and tem- 
perance of Oriental life. Dean Stanley : 

734 History of the Eastern Church, Lect. 8. 

Greatness. 

Greatness is a spiritual condition worthy to 
excite love, interest, and admiration ; and the out- 
ward proof of possessing greatness is, that we 
excite love, interest, and admiration. 

735 Matthew Arnold : 
Culture and Anarchy. Sweetness and Light. 

Great souls are always loyally submissive, rev- 
erent to what is over them : only small , mean 
souls are otherwise. 

736 Carlyle : Heroes and Hero Worship. 

The Hero as Man of Letters. 

Nothing is more simple than greatness ; indeed, 
to be simple is to be great. 

737 Emerson : Miscellanies. Literary Ethics. 

There was never yet a truly great man that was 
not at the same time truly virtuous. 

738 Benjamin Franklin: The Busy -Body . 

Great men are rarely isolated mountain-peaks ; 
they are the summits of ranges. 

739 T. W. Higginson: Atlantic Essays. 

A Plea for Culture (1867). 



DICTIONARY OF PB JOTATIOHS. 1 

Great men are amor > which God 

bestows iv 

740 George S. Hillard: Memorial Meeting 

to Do. bster, Boston , Oct. 25, 1852. 

Some are born grent. som _. ~. 

and some have greatness thrust upon 'em. 

741 ShaRS. : T \ Xi '-.'. Act ::.. So. 

Greece. 

Here's :he:n h: cv.r j-onntry of Greece _ us mere 
with begging tlian we can do with working. 

742 Soaks.: Pericles, Act ii., Sc. 1. 

Greed. 

Greed whir has overst ped natural limits 

is certain to pr: mes. 

743 Sknrca: Epistolm, xxsix., 5. 

Grief. 

Ire tired el grief decrease:.! when i: can swell 
no long 

744 Bacon: M Iliorical Works. 

h ionalia. 
Grief is the agony of an instant: the indulgence 
of grief the blunder of :. vie. 

745 Disraeli (Earl of Beacoxsftelp") : 

Vivian Grey, Bk. vi .. Ch, 7. 
Every one can mas:er a rrief but he that has it. 
74< Shaks. : 31 :..■;■ h A:::. Act ill.. >e. '2. 

Grotesque. The. 

The true _:"-.-«/:.- : ._ the expres-i 
r or ] re is r fals a 

pie opposed to it. which is the res dl : the 
full I ne. 

747 Ruskim: The Stones of Venice ill. 

I ... ill . - 



104 DICTIONARY OF PROSE QUOTATIONS. 

Growth. 

For the affection of young ladies is of as rapid 
growth as Jack's beanstalk, and reaches up to the 
sky in a night. 

748 Thackeray: Vanity Fair, Ch. 4. 

Guardianship. 

It seems to me the idea of our civilization, 
underlying all American life, is, that men do not 
need any guardian. We need no safeguard. Not 
only the inevitable, but the best power this side of 
the ocean, is the unfettered average common sense 
of the masses. 

749 Wendell Phillips : Speeches, Lectures, 

and Letters. Harper's Ferry. 
Guests. 

The first day a man is a guest, the second a 
burden, the third a pest. 

750 Laboulaye: Abclallah, Ch. 9. 

{Mary L. Booth, Translator.) 
Guilt. 

Guilt was never a rational thing ; it distorts all 
the faculties of the human mind, it perverts them, 
it leaves a man no longer in the free use of his 
reason, it puts him into confusion. 

751 Burke: Speech, Feb. 17, 1788. 
Impeachment of Warren Hastings. Fifth Day. 

Guilt is ever at a loss, and confusion waits upon 
it. Congreve : The Double- Dealer, 

lb2 Act vi., Sc. 17. 

Gypsies. 

Steal ! to be sure they may ; and, egad, serve 
your best thoughts as gypsies do stolen children, 
— disfigure them to make 'em pass for their ow r n. 

753 Sheridan: The Critic, Act i., Sc. 1. 



DICTIONARY OF PROSE QUOTATIONS. 105 

Habit, 

That to which we have been accustomed be- 
comes as it were a part oi our nature. 

754 Aristotle: Bhetorica, i., 11. 
Habit is the approximation of the animal system 

to the organic. It is a confession of failure in the 
highest function of being, which involves a per- 
petual self-determination, in full view of all exist- 
ing circumstances. 

755 Holmes : The Autocrat of the 

Breakfast Table. Ch. 7, 

Habit is a second nature. 

756 Montaigne: Bk. iii., Ch. 10. Of Vanity. 

Hades. 

Yet, of the dead, who hath returned from Hades ? 

757 Euripides : Hercules Furens, 297- 

Hair. 

One hair of a woman can draw more than a 
hundred pair of oxen. 

758 James Howell : Letters % Y5k.\\., iv. (1621). 

Hand. 

There is a hand that has no heart in it, there is 
a claw or paw, a flipper or fin, a bit of wet cloth 
to take hold of, a piece of unbaked dough on the 
cook's trencher, a cold clammy thing we recoil 
from, or greedy clutch with the heat of sin, which 
we drop as a burning coal. C. A. Bartol: 

759 The Rising Faith. Training. 

All the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this 
little hand. 

760 Shaks. : Macbeth, Act v., Sc. 1. 



106 DICTIONARY OF PROSE QUOTATIONS. 

Handsome. 

A fellow that hath had losses, and one that hath 
two gowns and everything handsome about him. 

761 Shaks. : Much Ado, Act iv., Sc. 2. 

Hanging. 

Hanging is the word, sir: if you be ready for 
that, 3'ou are well cooked, 

762 Shaks. : Cymbeline, Act v., Sc. 4. 
Hanging was the worst use a man could be put 

to. Sir Henry Wotton : The Dis- 

763 parity Between Buckingham and Essex. 

Happiness. 

Happiness is the natural flower of duty.. 

764 Phillips Brooks : Sermons. 

II. The Withheld Completions of Life, 
Happiness lies, first of all, in health. 

765 George William Curtis: 

Lotus-Eating. Trenton. 
Happiness is rather a negative than a positive 
term in this w r orld, and consists more in the ab- 
sence of some things than in the presence of others. 

766 Sam Slick (Thomas C. Haliburton) : 

The Old Judge, Ch. 5. 
How bitter a thing it is to look into happiness 
through another man's eyes ! 

767 Shaks. : As You Like It, Act v., Sc. 2. 
Man is the artificer of his own happiness. 

768 Henry D Thoreau : Winter. 

Journal, Jan. 21, 1838. 
Harmony. 

Variety is the condition of harmony. 

769 James Freeman Clarke: 
Ten Great Religions, Pt. i.. Ch. 12. 



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Harshness 

I will be as harsh as truth and as uncompromis- 
ing as justice. William Lloyd Garrison: 

770 The Liberator, Vol. L, No. 1, 1831. 

Haste. 

Haste makes waste, and waste makes want, and 
want makes strife between the good man and his 
wife. 

771 Old Proverb. 

Hatred. 

Hatred is self-punishment. 

772 Hosea Ballou : MSS. Sermons. 

Men hate those to whom they have to lie. 

773 Victor Hugo: The Toilers oj the Sea, 

Pt. i., Bk. vi., Ch. 6. 
Haughtiness. 

The haughty are always the victims of their own 
rash conclusions. Le Sage: 

774 Gil Bias, Bk. ix., Ch. 5. (Smollett, Trans.) 

Hay. 

While the sunne shineth, make hay. 

775 John Heywood: Proverbes, Pt. i., Ch. 3. 

Head. 

Two heads are better than one. 

776 John Heywood : Proverbes, Pt. i., Ch. 9. 

Thy head is full of quarrels as an egg is full of 
meat. 

777 Shaks. : Rom. and Jul., Act iii., Sc. 1. 

Health. 

There is a wisdom in this beyond the rules of 
physic: a man's own observation, what he finds 



108 DICTIONARY OF PROSE QUOTATIONS. 

good of, and what he finds hurt of, is the best 
physic to preserve health. But it is a safer con- 
clusion to say, This agreeth not well with me, there- 
fore I will not continue it, than this, I find no 
offence of this, therefore I may use it. 

778 Bacon: Essays. Of Health. 

The study of the soul in health and disease 
ought to be as much an object of scientific study 
and training as the health and diseases of the body. 

779 Henry Drummond : The New 

Evangelism. Spiritual Diagnosis. 

The first wealth is health. 

780 Emerson: Conduct of Life. Power. 

Heart 

The human heart is like a millstone in a mill : 
when you put wheat under it, it turns and grinds 
and bruises the wheat to flour; if you put no 
wheat, it still grinds on, but then 'tis itself it 
grinds and wears away. 

781 Martin Luther : Table Talk. 

Of Temptation and Tribulation. 

A man's heart deviseth his way ; but the Lord 
directeth his steps. 

782 Old Testament : Proverbs xvi. 9. 

A good heart's worth gold. 

783 Shaks. : 2 Henry IV., Act ii , Sc. 4. 

Heathen. 

What, art a heathen ? How dost thou under- 
stand the Scripture ? 

784 Shaks. : Hamlet, Act v., Sc. 1. 



DICTIONARY OF PROSE QUOTATIONS. 109 

Heaven. 

Heaven will be inherited by every man who 
has heaven in his soul. 

785 Henry Ward Beecher : Life Thoughts. 
If it is necessary that there should be a heaven, 

it is necessary that it should be kept heavenly. 

786 Henry Drummond : The New 
Evangelism. Survival of the Fittest. 

Heaven's above all ; and there be souls that 
must be saved, and there be souls that must not 
be saved. 

787 Shaks. : Othello, Act ii., Sc. 3. 

Hectoring. 

But when huffing and hectoring must be looked 
upon as the only badges of gallantry and courage 
what can recommend the exercise of patience 
against the disgrace of it ? 

788 Bobert South: Works, iii., xxxi. 

Heels. 

I suppose this is a spice of foreign breeding to 
let your uncle kick his heels in your hall. 

789 Foote : The Minor, ii. 
Come at my heels, Jack Bugby. 

790 Shaks. : Mer. W. of W., Act ii., Sc. 3. 

Heirloom. 

What practical man ever left such an heirloom 
to his countrymen as the ' < Faery Queen " ? 

791 Loavell: Among My Books. Spenser. 

Hell. 

Hell is both sides of the tomb, and a devil may 
be respectable and wear good clothes. 

792 Charles H. Parkhurst: Sermons. 

XII. The Pharisee's Prayer. 



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I think the devil will not have me damned, lest 
the oil that is in me should set hell on fire. 

793 Shaks. : Mer. W. ofW., Act v., Sc. 5. 

Hellenism. 

The development of our Hellenizing instincts, 
seeking* ardently the intelligible law of things, 
and making a stream of fresh thought play freely 
about our stock notions and habits is what is most 
wanted by us at present. 

794 Matthew Arnold : Culture and Anarchy. 

Helm. 

That dissembling abominable varlet Diomed, 
has got that same scurvy doting foolish young 
knave's sleeve of Troy there, in his helm. 

795 Shaks. : Troil. and Cress., Act v., Sc. 4. 

Help, Helpers, Helping. 

The Boston help reads Dante while she prepares 
the succulent pork and beans. 

796 New Eng. Journal of Education, xxii., 54. 

Fellow-laborers in the same vineyard, not lord- 
ing over their rights, but helpers of their joy. 

797 Burke : Economical Reform. 

More helpful than all wisdom is one draught of 
simple human pity that will not forsake us. 

798 George Eliot : Mill on the Floss, Ch. 7. 

Heredity. 

A child inherits its parents' nature not as a 
special punishment, but by natural law. 

799 Henry Drummond : 

The New Evangelism. 



DICTIONARY OF PROSE QUOTATIONS. Ill 

Heroes. 

Heroes, it would seem, exist always, and a cer- 
tain worship of them. 

800 Carlyle : Heroes and Hero Worship. 

Each man is a hero and an oracle to somebody, 
and to that person whatever he says has an en- 
hanced value. 

801 Emerson: Letters and Social Aims. 

Heroism. 

The characteristic of genuine heroism is its 
persistency. All men have wandering impulses, 
fits and starts of generosity. But when you have 
resolved to be great, abide by yourself, and do 
not weakly try to reconcile yourself with the 
world. The heroic cannot be the common, nor 
the common the heroic. 

802 Emerson: Essays. Heroism. 
A noble life, crowned with heroic death, rises 

above and outlives the pride and pomp and glory 
of the mightiest empire of the earth. 

803 Garfield : The Works of James Abram 

Garfield. Oration, Arlington, Va., 1868. 

Hero- Worship. 

Society is founded on hero-worship. 

804 Carlyle: Heroes and Hero- Worship. 

The Hero as Divinity, 
Pure hero-worship is healthy. It stimulates the 
young to deeds of heroism, stirs the old to un- 
selfish efforts, and gives the masses models of 
mankind that tend to lift humanity above the 
commonplace meanness of ordinary life. 

805 Donn Piatt : Memories of the Men who 

Saved the Union. Preface. 



112 DICTIONARY OF PROSE QUOTATIONS. 

Historian. 

Historians ought to be precise faithful, and un- 
prejudiced ; and neither interest nor fear, hatred 
nor affection, should make them swerve from the 
way of truth. Cervantes : 

806 Don Quixote, Pt. i.,Bk. ii., Ch. 9. 

(Jarvis , Translator . ) 

To be a really good historian is perhaps the 
rarest of intellectual distinctions. 

807 Macaulay: Essays. History. 

{Edinburgh Revieiv, May, 1828 ) 
History. 

History, as it lies at the root of all science, is 
also the first distinct product of man's spiritual 
nature : his earliest expression of what can be 
called thought. Carlyle : 

808 Essays. On History. (Frazer's Mag.) 

History is the witness of the times, the light of 
truth, the life of memory, the schoolmistress of 
life, the herald of antiquity ; receiving from the 
voice of the orator alone her credentials to immor- 
tality. 

809 Cicero: Be Oratore, ii., 9, 36. 
History owes its excellence more to the writer's 

manner than to the materials of which it is com- 
posed. Goldsmith : 

810 Life of Richard Nash, Esq. 
History is little else than a picture of human 

crimes and misfortunes. Voltaire : 

811 J VIngenu, Ch. 10 (1767). 

Holidays. 

Life without holidays is like a long journey 
without rest-houses. Democritus : 

812 Ethica, Fragment, 229 (32). 



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I have a great confidence in the revelations 
which holidays bring forth. 

813 Disraeli (Earl of Beaconsfield) : 
Speech, Rouse of Commons, Feb. 29, 1864. 

Home. 

Home, — the nursery of the Infinite. 

814 William Ellery Chaining : 

Note Book. Children. Education. 

A man who in the struggles of life has no home 
to retire to, in fact or in memory, is without life's 
best rewards and life's best defences. 

815 Timothy Titcomb (J. G. Holland) : 

Gold-Foil XXIII. Home. 

Homer. 

We can say nothing but what hath been said. 
Our poets steal from Homer. . . . Our story- 
dressers do as much : he that comes last is com- 
monly best. Burton : 

816 Anatomy of Melancholy. 

Even the worthy Homer sometimes nods. 

817 Horace: Ats Poetica, 359. 

Honesty. 

A rich man is an honest man, no thanks to him, 
for he would be a double knave to cheat mankind 
when he had no need of it. 

818 Daniel De Foe : Serious Reflections. 

An honest man, sir, is able to speak for him- 
self, when a knave is not. 

819 Shaks. : 2 Henry IV., Act v., Sc. 1. 

No legacy so rich as honesty. 

820 Shaks. : AlVs Well, Act iii., Sc. 5. 



114 DICTIONARY OF PROSE QUOTATIONS. 

I hope I shall always possess firmness and 
virtue enough to maintain, what I consider the 
most enviable of all titles, the character of an 
«« honest man/'' 

821 George Washington: Moral Maxims. 

Honor. 

Honor hath three things in it : the vantage- 
ground to do good ; the approach to kings and 
principal persons ; and the raising of a man's own 
fortunes. Bacon : 

822 Essays. Of Ambition. 

That chastity of honor which felt a stain like a 
wound. Burke : 

823 Reflections on the Rev. in France. 

Honors. 

The honors we grant mark how high we stand, 

O O 7 

and they educate the future. The men we honor, 
and the maxims we lay down in measuring our 
favorites, show the level and morals of the time. 

824 Wendell Phillips: 
Speeches, Lectures, and Letters. Ldols. 

Hope. 

Hope is the parent of faith. 

825 C. A. Bartol : Radical Problems. Hope. 

Hope never spreads her golden wings but on 
unfathomable seas. 

826 Emerson: Letters and Social Aims. 

Progress of Culture. 

He that lives upon hopes will die fasting. 

827 Benjamin Franklin: Poor Richard's Al. 

Nothing is more universal than hope, for those 
have hope who have nothing else in the world. 

828 Thales: (Stobwus, Florilegium, ex., 24). 



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Horse. 

The ass will carry his load, but not a double 
load; ride not a free horse to death. 

829 Cervantes: Don Quixote, Pt. ii., Ch. 71. 

Hospitality. 

In good company, you need not ask who is the 
master of the feast. The man who sits in the 
lowest place, and who is always industrious in 
helping every one, is certainly the man. 

830 Hume: Essays. XIII. Of the Rise 

and Progress of the Arts and Sciences. 
House. 

Houses are built to live in, and not to look on ; 
therefore let use be preferred before uniformity, 
except where both may be had. 

831 Bacon: Essays. Of Building. 

Houses are like the human beings that inhabit 
them. Victor Hugo : 

832 The Toilers of the Sea, Pt. i., Bk. L, Ch. 2. 

Like a fair house, built on another man's ground. 

833 Shaks. : Mer. W. of W., Act ii., Sc. 2. 

Humanity. 

Man is the will, and woman the sentiment. In 
this ship of humanity, Will is the rudder, and 
Sentiment the sail ; when woman affects to steer, 
the rudder is only a masked sail. 

834 Emerson : Miscellanies. Woman. 
Christianity is the highest perfection of humanity. 

835 Johnson: Boswell's life of Johnson. 
IV. 27. {George Birkbeck HilL Editor, 1887.) 

Human Nature. 

Human nature with all its infirmities and depra- 
vation is still capable of great things. It is capable 



116 DICTIONARY OF PROSE QUOTATIONS. 

of attaining to decrees of wisdom and of goodness, 
which, we have reason to believe, appear respect- 
able in the estimation of superior intelligences. 

836 Johx Adams : Letters Addressed to His 

Wife. Letter xxxvii. 
Humble-pie. 

Somewhere in life's feast the course of humble- 
pie must always come in ; and if I did not wholly 
relish this bit of it, I dare say it was good for me, 
and I digested it perfectly. 

837 W. D. Howells: Literary Friends and 

Acquaintance. Pt. iii., vi. 
Humility. 

True love is the parent of a noble humility. 

838 William Ellery Channing: 

Note-Book. Love. 

Humility is the altar upon which God wishes 
that we should offer him his sacrifices. 

839 La Rochefoucauld: Reflections; or, 

Sentences and Moral Maxims. No. 79. 
Humor. 

Humor is consistent with pathos, whilst wit is 
not. Coleridge: Table Talk. 

840 Additional Table Talk. Humor. 
Shall quips and sentences and these paper 

bullets of the brain awe a man from the career of 
his humor? 

841 Shaks. : Much Ado, Act ii., Sc. 3. 

Humor is the mistress of tears. 

842 Thackeray : Charity and Humor. 

Hypocrisy. 

A bad man is worse when he pretends to be a 
saint. Bacon : Moral and Historical 

843 Works. Ornamenta Bationalia. 



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Hypocrisy is the homage vice pays to virtue. 

844 La Rochefoucauld : Reflections ; or, 
Sentences and Moral Maxims. Xo. 218. 

I have heard of your paintings too, well enough ; 
God has given you one face, and you make your- 
selves another. 

845 Shaks. : Hamlet, Act iii., Sc. 1. 



I. 

Iconoclasm. 

Iconoclasm. whether manifested in religion or 
in politics, has regarded the existing order of 
things, not as a product of evolution but as the 
work of artful priests and legislators of antiquity 
which may accordingly be destroyed as summarily 
as it was created. 

816 John Fiske : Cosmic Philosophy, II. 476. 

Iconoclasm . . . was a primitive Eationalism 
enforced upon an unreasoning age — an attempt to 
spiritualize by law and edict a generation which 
had been unspiritualized by centuries of material- 
istic devotion. . . . Iconoclasm might proscribe 
idolatry, but it had no power of kindling a purer 
faith. Milman : History of Latin 

847 Christianity, Vol. ii., Ch. 7. 

Idea, Ideas. 

Ideas in the head set hands about their several 
tasks. A. Bronson Alcott : Table Talk. 

848 IT Enterprise. Ideas. 
Ideas must work through the brains and the 

arms of good and brave men, or they are no better 
than dreams. Emerson : Miscellanies, 

849 American Civilization. 



118 DICTIONARY OF PROSE QUOTATIONS. 

The higher grade of development of ideas, of 
intellect and reason, which raises man so much 
above the brute, is intimately connected with the 
rise of language. Ernest Haeckel : 

850 The Paddle of the Universe, Ch. 7. 

Psychic Gradations. 

The persistence of an all-absorbing idea is 
terrible. Victor Hugo: Ninety- Ihree, Pt. iii., 

851 Bk. i., Ch. 6. (Benedict, Translator.) 

That fellow seems to me to possess but one idea, 
and that a wrong one. Dr. Johnson : 

852 BoswelVs Life of Johnson, Ch. 5, 1770. 

Ideas often flash across our minds more com- 
plete than we could make them after much labor. 

853 La Rochefoucauld: Reflections-, 

or, Sentences and Moral Maxims. 

Idealism. 

It is the very essence of the Kantian idealism 
that objects are not there until they are thought. 

854 E. Caird: Philosophy of Kant, p. 327. 

Ideals. 

Our ideals are our better selves. 

855 A. Bronson Alcott : Table Talk. 

V. Habits. Friendship. 

Ideals are the world's masters. 

856 Timothy Titcomb (J. G. Holland) : 

Gold-Foil. VI. The Ideal Christ. 

Idleness. 

A lazy man is necessarily a bad man ; an idle is 
necessarily a demoralized population. 

857 John William Draper : Thoughts on 

the Future Civil Policy of America. 



DICTIONARY OF PROSE QUOTATIONS. 119 

Idleness and pride tax with a heavier hand than 
kings and jjarliaments. If we can get rid of the 
former, we may easily bear the latter. 

858 Benjamin Franklin : Let. on Stamp Act. 

Idolatry. 

In that day a man shall cast his idols ... to 
the moles and to the bats. 

859 Old Testament: Isaiah ii. 20. 

God will put up with a great many things in the 
human heart, but there is one thing that he will 
not put up with in it, — a second place. He who 
offers God a second place, offers him no place. 

860 Ruskin : Lect. on Architecture and Painting. 

Ignorance. 

Ignorance never settles a question. 

861 Disraeli (Earl of Beaconsfield) : 
Speech, House of Commons, May 14, 1866. 

Ignorance gives us a large range of probabil- 
ities. George Eliot : 

862 Daniel Deronda, Bk. ii., Ch. 13. 

Accursed be he who sins in ignorance, if that 
ignorance be caused by sloth. 

863 Ossoli {Sarah Margaret Fuller) : 

Woman in the Nineteenth Century . 

Ignorance of the law excuses no man ; not that 

all men know the law, but because 'tis an excuse 

every man will plead, and no man can tell how 

to refute him. 

864 John Selden : Table Talk, Law. 
Madam, thou errest : I say, there is no darkness, 

but ignorance ; in which thou art more puzzled, 
than the Egyptians in their fog. 

865 Shaks. : Tw. Night, Act iv., Sc. 2. 



120 DICTIONARY OF PROSE QUOTATIONS. 

Ignorance breeds rashness, reflection cowardice. 

866 Thucydides: History, ii., 40, 3. 

Ill-Humor. 

Ill-humor arises from an inward consciousness 
of our own want of merit, from a discontent which 
ever accompanies that envy which foolish vanity 
engenders. Goethe: Sorrows of ' Werther '. 

867 July 1. (Bay Ion, Translator.) 

Illumination. 

Perfect Illumination is only writing made lovely : 
the moment it passes into picture-making it has 
lost its dignity and function. 

868 Ruskin: Lectures on Art, Sec. 143. 

Illusion. 

The cleverest, the acutest men are often 
under an illusion about women ; . . . their good 
woman is a queer thing, half doll, half angel; 
their bad woman almost always a hend. 

869 Charlotte Bronte : Shirley, Ch. 20. 

Imagination. 

The imagination is the secret and marrow of 
civilization. It is the very eye of faith. 

870 Henry Ward Beecher: 

Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit. 
On the human imagination events produce the 
effects of time. James Fenimore Cooper: 

871 The Deer slayer, Ch. 1. 

To write imaginatively a man should have — 
imagination. 

872 Lowell: Among My Books. Dryclen. 

Give me an ounce of civet, good apothecary, to 
sweeten my imagination. 

873 Shaks. : King Lear, Act iv.. Sc. 6, 



DICTIONARY OF PROSE QUOTATIONS. 121 

Immortality. 

Immortality is the glorious discovery of Chris- 
tianity. William Ellery Channing : 

874 Works. Immortality. 

The desire for immortality is not selfish. 

875 Hugh R. Haweis : Speech in Season, 

Bk. ii. Immortality, Sec. 276. 

Work for immortality if you will : then wait for 
it. Timothy Titcomb {J. G. Holland) : 

876 Gold-Foil. III. Patience. 

Impatience. 

We get impatient, and there crops out our 
human weakness. 

877 Timothy Titcomb (J. G. Holland) : 

Gold-Foil. III. Patience. 

Imperfections. 

All things are literally better, lovelier, and 
more beloved for the imperfections which have 
been divinely appointed, that the law of human 
life may be Effort, and the law of human judgment 
mercy. Ruskin : The Stones of Venice. 

878 The Sea Stories, Ch. 6, Sec. 25. 

Imperialism. 

Under the pretext of Imperialism and far-seeing 
statesmanship, the habitual and hitherto incurable 
fault of our governments — especially of Tory 
governments — has been to look too far ahead. 

879 W. R. Greg : Misc. Essays. First Ser. 
The evacuation of Boston was not simply that 

one flag went down and another flag went up 
over the Province House and the Old State House ; 
that soldiers in homespun followed down to the 
wharves other soldiers in red coats. On the 17th 



122 DICTIONARY OF PROSE QUOTATIONS. 

day of March, 1776, republicanism under George 
Washington drove imperialism under Sir William 
Howe, out of Boston, never to come back. 

880 George F. Hoar: Speech, March IS, 
1901, on the Anniv. of the Evac. of Boston, 1776. 

Impertinence 

Nothing is more easy than to represent as im- 
pertinences any parts of learning that have no 
immediate relation to the happiness or convenience 
of mankind. 

881 Addison: Ancient Medals, \. 

Impossibility. 

A poet without love were a physical and meta- 
physical impossibility. Carlyle : 

882 Burns. Edinburgh Review, 1828. 

Imposture. 

All imposture weakens confidence and chills 
benevolence. 

883 Dr. Johnson: Basselas, Ch. -14. 

Impressions. 

There is a great deal in the first impression. 
884: Congreve: The Way of the World, 

Act iv., Sc. 1. 

Improbability. 

If this were pla} T ed upon a stage now, I could 
condemn it as an improbable fiction. 

885 Shaks. : Tw. Night, Act iii., Sc. 4. 

Improvement. 

Improvement is nature. Leigh Hunt: 

886 Table Talk. Imaginary Conversations of 

Pope and Sivift, 



DICTIONARY OF PROSE QUOTATIONS. 123 

Improvidence. 

Buy what thou hast no need of, and ere long 
thou shalt sell thy necessaries. 

887 Benjamin Franklin : Poor Richard's Al. 

Impudence. 

Impudence is so nearly allied to Fortitude and a 
praiseworthy assurance, that it often passes upon 
the Vulgar for those laudable Qualifications. 

888 Sir R. Blackmore : The Lay Monastery. 

Inactivity. 

The Commons, faithful to their system, re- 
mained in a wise and masterly inactivity. 

889 Sir James Mackintosh: 

Vindicice Qallicw. 
Inclination. 

Men's thoughts are much according to their 
inclination. Bacon : 

890 Essays. Of Custom and Education. 

I know, indeed, the evil of that I purpose ; but 
my inclination gets the better of my judgment. 

891 Euripides: Medea. 1078. 

Independence. 

It is my living sentiment, and by the blessing 
of God it shall be my dying sentiment, — Inde- 
pendence now and Independence forever. 

892 Daniel Webster: Eulogy on Adams 
and Jefferson, Aug. 2, 1826, Vol. i., p. 136. 

Independence Day. 

The second Day of July, 1776, will be the most 
memorable epoch in the history of America. I am 
apt to believe that it will be celebrated by succeed- 
ing generations as the great anniversary festival. 



124 DICTIONARY OF PROSE QUOTATIONS. 

It ought to be commemorated as the day of de- 
liverance, by solemn acts of devotion to God 
Almighty. It ought to be solemnized with pomp 
and parade, with shows, games, sports, guns, 
bells, bonfires, and illuminations, from one end of 
this continent to the other, from this time forward 
forevermore. John Adams : 

893 Letter, July 3, 1776. To Mrs. Adams. 

Indexes. 

I certainly think that the best book in the world 
would owe the most to a good index, and the 
worst book, if it had but a single good thought in 
it, might be kept alive by it. 

894 Horace Binney: Letter, Aprils, 1868. 

To S. Austin Allibone. 

So essential did I consider an index to be to 
every book, that I proposed to bring a bill into 
Parliament to deprive an author who publishes a 
book without an index of the privilege of copy- 
right, and, moreover, to subject him for his 
offence to a pecuniary penalty. 

895 Lord Campbell : Lives of the Chief 
Justices of England, Vol. iii. Preface. 

The value of an accurate index is well known to 
those who have frequent occasion to consult volu- 
minous works in any science ; and to construct a 
good one requires great patience, labor and skill. 

896 Joseph Story: Dane's Digest of 

American Law. 

India. 

India is a place beyond all others where one 
must not take things too seriously — the mid-day 
sun always excepted. Too much work and too 



DICTIONARY OF PROSE QUOTATIONS. 125 

much energy kill a man just as effectively as too 
much assorted vice or too much drink. 

897 Rudyahd Kipling : 
Plain Tales from the Hills, llirown Away. 

Indifference. 

I am a man, and nothing that concerns a man 
do I deem a matter of indifference to me. 

898 Terence : Heautontimoroumenos , 

Act i., Sc. 1, 25. (77.) 

Individuality,. 

Individuality is everywhere to be spared and 
respected as the root of everything good. 

899 Richter: Tytan Cycle, 111. 

( Brooks, Translator.) 

Every subject's duty is the king's ; but every 
subject's soul is his own. 

900 Shaks. : Henry V., Activ., Sc. 1. 

Indolence. 

Never suffer youth to be an excuse for inade- 
quacy, nor age and fame to be an excuse for 
indolence. 

901 B. R. Haydon: Table Talk, 

Industry. 

Sloth makes all things difficult, but industry all 
things easy. 

902 Benjamin Franklin : Poor BicharcVs Al. 

The great end of all human industry is the 
attainment of happiness. Hume : 

903 Essays. XV. The Stoic; or, The Man 

of Action and Virtue. 



126 DICTIONARY OF PROSE QUOTATIONS. 

Honorable industry always travels the same 
road with enjoyment and duty, and progress is 
altogether impossible without it. 

904 Samuel Smiles: Self -Help > Ch. 2. 

Inequality. 

One half of the world must SAveat and o^roan 
that the other half may dream. 

905 Longfellow: Hyperion, Bk. i., Ch. 4. 

Inevitableness. 

There is no good in arguing with the inevitable. 
The only argument available Avith an east wind is 
to put on your overcoat. 

906 Lowell : Democracy and Addresses. 

Infallibility. 

Infallibility always paralyzes. It giA-es rest, 
but it is the rest of stagnation. 

907 Henry Drummond : 
The Neio Evangelism, p. 29. 

Infamy. 

The vilest infamy is not too deep for the Seraph 
Virtue to descend and illumine its abyss. 

908 Bulwer-Lytton : The Disowned, Ch. 14. 

Infidelity. 

Man may doubt here and there, but mankind 
does not doubt. The universal conscience is 
larger than the individual conscience, and that 
constantly comes in to correct and check our own 
infidelity. Hugh R. Haweis : 

909 Speech in Season, Bk. iii. The Prodigal. 

He hath denied the faith, and is worse than an 
infidel. 

910 New Testament: 1 Timothy v. 8. 



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Infinity. 

That which we foolishly call vastness is, rightly 
considered, not more wonderful, not more impres- 
sive, than that which we insolently call littleness ; 
and the infinity of God is not mysterious, it is only 
unfathomable, not concealed, but incomprehen- 
sible : it is a clear infinity, the darkness of the 
pure, unsearchable sea. 

911 Ruskin: Modem Painters, Pt. iii., Sec. 1. 

Influence. 

Influence is to be measured not by the extent of 
surface it covers, but by its kind. 

912 William Ellery Channing : Self- 
Culture. {Address, Boston, Mass., Sept. 1838.) 

Ingratitude. 

The wicked are always ungrateful. 

913 Cervantes : Bon Quixote, Pt. i., Bk. iii., - 

Ch. 23. (Jar vis, Translator.} 

Ingratitude is monstrous ; and for the multitude 
to be ingrateful were to make a monster of the 
multitude. 

914 Shaks. : Coriolanus, Act ii., Sc. 3. 

Injustice. 

Extreme law, extreme injustice, is now become 
a stale proverb in discourse. 

915 Cicero: Be Officii*, i. 33. 

Ink. 

Let there be gall enough in thy ink ; though 
thou write with a goose-pen, no matter. 

916 Shaks. : Tw. Night, Act iii., Sc. 2. 



128 DICTIONARY OF PROSE QUOTATIONS. 

Innkeeper. 

Though I am an innkeeper, thank Heaven I am 
a Christian. Cervantes: Don Quixote, 

917 Pt. i., Bk. iv., Ch. 32. (Jarvis, Translator.) 

Innocence. 

Innocence is plain, direct, and simple; guilt is 
a crooked, intricate, inconstant, and various thing. 

918 Burke: Speech, Feb. 15, 1788. 

Impeachment of Warren Hastings. 

To dread no eye, and to suspect no tongue, is 
the greatest prerogative of innocence: an exemp- 
tion granted only to invariable virtue. 

919 Dr. Johnson: The Rambler. No. 68. 

Innovations. 

As the births of living creatures at first are ill- 
shapen, so are all innovations, which are the births 
of time. 

920 Bacon: Essays. Of Innovations. 

Inns. 

Let the world wagge, and take mine ease in 
myne lime. 

921 John Heywood : Proverbes, Pt. i., Ch. 5. 

There is nothing which has yet been contrived 
by man, by which so much happiness is produced 
as by a good tavern or inn. 

922 Dr. Johnson: BoswelVs Life of Johnson. 
1776. (Routleclge edition, Vol. ii., Ch. 14.) 

Insanity. 

All power of fancy over reason is a degree of 
insanity. 

923 Dr. Johnson: Rasselas, Ch. 44, 



DICTIONARY OF PROSE QUOTATIONS. 129 

Insight. 

A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's 
experience. 

924 Holmes: The Professor at the 

Breakfast Table, Ch. 10. 
Insincerity. 

Insincerity in a man's own heart must make all 
his enjoyments, all that concerns him, unreal ; so 
that his whole life must seem like a merely 
dramatic representation. 

925 Hawthorne : American Note-Books. 

Inspiration. 

Inspiration must find answering inspiration. 

926 A. Bronson Alcott : Table Talk. 

VI. Creeds. Scripture. 

It has all the contortions of the sibyl without the 
inspiration. 

927 Burke : Prior's Life of Burke. 

Instinct. 

I was now a coward on instinct. 

928 Shaks. : 1 Henry IV., Act ii., Sc. 4. 

Instinct is intelligence incapable of self-con- 
sciousness. John Sterling: Essays and 

929 Tales. Thoughts. Thoughts and Images. 

Institutions. 

An institution is the lengthened shadow of one 
man; as, the Reformation of Luther; Quakerism, 
of Fox; Methodism, of Wesley; Abolition, of 
C larks on. 

930 Emerson: Essays. Self- Reliance. 



130 DICTIONARY OF PROSE QUOTATIONS. 

I want you to turn your eyes from institutions 
to men. The difficulty of the present day and 
with us is, we are bullied by institutions. 

931 Wendell Phillips: Speeches, Lectures, 

and Letters. Public Opinion. 
Instructors. 

Men in teaching others, learn themselves. 

932 Seneca: Works. Epistles. No. 7. 

{Thomas Lodge, Editor.) 
Insults. 

The way to procure insults is to submit to them. 
A man meets with no more respect than he exacts. 

933 Hazlitt: Characteristics. No. 402. 

Integrity. 

Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless. 

934 Dr. Johnson: Iiasselas, Ch. 41. 

Intellect. 

Intellect really exists in its products ; its king- 
dom is here. Hartley Coleridge : 

935 Dramatic Works of Massinger and Ford. 

Intellect annuls fate. So far as a man thinks, 
he is free. 

936 Emerson: Conduct of Life. Fate. 

Intelligence. 

To educate the intelligence is to enlarge the 
horizon of its desires and wants. 

937 Lowell: Democracy and Other Addresses. 

Address, Birmingham, Eng., Oct. 6, 1884. 

Every breeze wafts intelligence from country to 
country, every wave rolls it, all give it forth, and 
all in turn receive it. 

938 Daniel Webster: Address, Charlestown, 
Mass., June, 1825. Bunker Hill Monument. 



DICTIONARY OF PROSE QUOTATIONS. 131 

Intemperance. 

O thou invisible spirit of wine, if thou hast no 
name to be known by, let us call thee devil. 

9:59 Shaks. : Othello, Act ii., Sc. 3. 

Intimacy. 

The worst way of being intimate is by scrib- 
bling. Dr. Johnson: 

940 BoswclVs Life of Johnson. V. 93. 

Interest. 

Interest speaks all sorts of tongues, and plays 
all sorts of parts, even that of disinterestedness. 

941 La Rochefoucauld : Maxim 39. 

Invention. 

The fortune in being the first in an invention, or 
in a privilege, doth cause sometimes a wonderful 
overgrowth in riches ; as it was with the first 
sugarman in the Canaries. 

942 Bacon: Essays. Of Riches. 

Without invention a painter is but a copier, and 
a poet but a plagiary of others. 

943 Dryden: Essays. Of Poetry and Painting . 

Inventors. 

Only an inventor knows how to borrow, and 
every man is or should be an inventor. 

944 Emerson : Letters and Social Ai?ns. 

Quotation and Originality. 
Very learned women are to be found, in the 
same manner as female warriors ; but they are 
seldom or never inventors. 

945 Voltaire: A Philosophical Dictionary. 

Women. 



132 DICTIONARY OF PROSE QUOTATIONS. 

Iron. 

When the iron is hot, strike. 

946 John Heywood : Proverbes, Pt. L, Ch. 3. 

He shall rule them with a rod of iron. 

947 New Testament: Revelation ii. 27.. 

Irony. 

Irony is an insult conveyed in the form of a 
compliment. E. P. Whipple: 

948 Literature and Life. Wit and Humor. 

Irreverence. 

We treat God with irreverence by banishing him 
from our thoughts, not by referring to his will on 
slight occasions. Ruskin : 

949 The Seven Lamps of Architecture. 

Iteration. 
-^ej Iteration, like fiction, is likely to generate heat 

instead of progress. George Eliot: 

950 The Mill on the Floss, Bk. ii., Ch. 2. 



J. 
Jabbering. 

He told me he did not know what travelling was 
good for but to teach a man to ride the great 
horse, to jabber French, and to talk against pas- 
sive obedience. 

951 Addison: Tory Foxhunter. 

We dined like emperors, and jabbered in sev- 
eral languages. 

952 Macaulay : {Ln Irevelyan i., 213). 



DICTIONARY OF PROSE QUOTATIONS. 133 

Jackanapes. 

Or, if I might buffet for my love, or bound my 
horse for her favors, I could lay on like a butcher, 
and sit like a jack-an-apes, never off. 

953 Shaks. : Henry V., Act v., Sc. 2. 

Jacobins. 

Itinerant revolutionary tribunals composed of 
trusty Jacobins were to move from department to 
department, and the guillotine was to travel in 
their train. 

954 Macaulay : Essays. Barerc. 

Jail. 

Being in a ship is being in a jail, with the 
chance of being drowned. 

955 Dr. Johnson: BoswelVs Life of Johnson, 

Vol. ii., Ch. 3, 1759. 
Jangle. 

But now, Sir Peter, if we have finished our daily 
jangle, I presume I may go to my engagement at 
Lady Sneerweirs. 

956 Sheridan : School j or Scandal, Act ii., Sc.l. 

Jarring. 

Although there be in their words a manifest 
show of jar, yet none if we look upon the difference 
of matter. 

957 Hooker: Ecclesiastical Polity, Ch. 5. 

Jealousy. 

Jealousy is always born with love, but does 
not always die with it. 

958 La Rochefoucauld : Reflections. Xo. 361. 
Love is strong as death ; jealousy is cruel as 

the orave. 

959 Old Testament : Song of Solomon, viii. 6. 



134 DICTIONARY OF PROSE QUOTATIONS. 

O jealousy ! thou magnifier of trifles ! 

960 Schiller: Fiesco, Act i., Sc. 1. 

( Bohn , Translate r . ) 

Jerusalem. 

If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, let my right hand 
forget her cunning. 

961 % Old Testament: .Psalm cxxxvii. 5. 

Jesting. 

Jests that give pain are no jests. 

962 Cervantes: Don Quixote, p. 17. 

{Burke's Translation ) 
A jest loses its point when he who makes it is 
the first to laugh. Schiller : 

963 Fiesco, Act i., Sc. 7. (Bohn, Irans.) 

It would be argument for a week, laughter for 
a month, and a good jest for ever. 

964 Shaks. : 1 Henry IV., Act ii., Sc. 2. 

Jesus Christ. 

Christ is the one great typical man; and all 
high manhood necessarily conforms to Christ. 

965 Henry Ward Beecher : 

Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit. 

In Him was the perfect power of uttering God 
to men, and of being full of God, not for himself 
only but for mankind. His headship of our race, 
his mecliatorship, his atonement, are various ways 
of stating this idea. Everything that he was and 
did, he was and did for us. He lived his life, he 
died his death, for us. He took sorrow for us. 
He took joy and comfort for us also. 

966 Phillips Brooks : Sermons. 
I. Ihe Purpose and Use of Comfort. 



DICTIONARY OF PROSE QUOTATIONS. 135 

The people's friend ? Where will you find him 
but in Jesus Christ of Nazareth ? 

967 Charles Kixgsley : Alton Locke, Ch. 37. 

I refuse to permit discussion this evening re- 
specting the love which a Christian man bears to 
his Redeemer, — a love more delicate far than the 
love which was ever borne to sister, ... a rever- 
ence more sacred than man ever bore to mother. 

968 Frederick W. Robertson: 
Lectures and Addresses. Skeptical Pub. 

Jewel. 

Consistency, thou art a jewel. 

969 Old Proverb. {Origin Unknown). 

Jews. 

I am a Jew. Hath not a Jew eyes? hath not a 
Jew hands, organs, dimensions, senses, affections, 
passions ? fed with the same food, hurt with the 
same weapons, subject to the same diseases, healed 
by the same means, warmed and cooled by the 
same winter and summer, as a Christian is ? 

970 Shaks. : M. of Venice, Act iii., Sc. 1. 

Johnson, Samuel. 

What a singular destiny has been that of this 
remarkable man ! — To be regarded in his own 
age as a classic, and in ours as a companion ! To 
receive from his contemporaries that full homage 
which men of genius have in general received only 
from posterity ; to be more intimately known to 
posterity than other men are known to their con- 
temporaries ! M\r allay: 

971 On BoswelVs Life of Johnson (Croker's ed.). 



136 DICTIONARY OF PROSE QUOTATIONS. 

Jokes. 

It requires a surgical operation to get a joke 
well into a Scotch understanding. 

972 Sydney Smith : 

A Memoir of the Rev. Sydney Smith. 

Journey. 

As the Italians say, Good company in a journey 
makes the way to seem the shorter. 

973 Izaak Walton: The Complete Angler, 

Pt. L, Ch. i. 

Joy. 

Joy in one's work is the consummate tool with- 
out which the work may be done indeed, but 
without which the work will always be done 
slowly, clumsily, and without its finest perfect- 
ness. Phillips Brooks : 

974 Sermons. The Joy of Self- Sacrifice. 

Judges. 

A king that setteth to sale seats of justice op- 
press eth the people ; for he teacheth his judges to 
sell justice, and "prelio parata pretio venditor 
justitia" 

975 Bacon: Essays. Of a King. 
Judges must beware of hard constructions and 

strained influences ; for there is no worse torture 
than the torture of laws : specially in case of laws 
penal, they ought to have care, that that which 
was meant for terror be not turned into rigor. 

976 Bacon: Essays. Of Judicature. 
It is better that a judge should lean on the side 

of compassion than severity. Cervantes : 

977 Bon Quixote, Pt. ii., Ch. 43. 

(Jarvis, Translator. ) 



DICTIONARY OF PROSE QUOTATIONS. 137 

Judgment. 

Judgment is forced upon us by experience. 

978 Dr. Johnson: 

Lives of the English Poets. Pope. 

Commonly, we say a judgment falls upon a 
man for something in him we cannot abide. 

979 John Selden: Table Talk. Judgments. 

Justice. 

There is no virtue so truly great and godlike 
as justice. 

980 Addison: The Guardian. Xo. 99. 

Justice is always violent to the party offending, 
for every man is innocent in his own eyes. 

981 Daniel De Foe: 
Shortest Wag with Dissenters. 

Justice satisfies everybody, and justice alone. 

982 Emerson : Lecture, Boston, May 30, 1878. 
Justice is immortal, eternal, and immutable, 

like God himself. Kossuth : 

983 Select Speeches. Public Piracy of Russia. 

New York, to the Bar, Dec. 19. 

A man may see how this world goes with no 
eyes. Look with thine eyes : see how yond justice 
rails upon yond simple thief. Hark, in thine 
ear : change places ; and, handy-dandy, which is 
the justice, which is the thief ? 

984 Shaks. : King Lear, Act iv., Sc. 6. 



K. 

Kindness. 

Kindness in us is the honey that blunts the 
sting of unkindness in another. 

985 Landor : Imaginary Conversations. 



138 DICTIONARY OF PROSE QUOTATIONS. 



In her tongue is the law of kindness. 

986 Old Testament: Proverbs xxxi. 26. 



Kings. 

Kings will be tyrants from policy, when sub- 
jects are rebels from principle. 

987 Burke : Reflections on IheRev. in France, 

Vol. iii., p. 334. 

Strange ! to think how the Moth-kings lay up 
treasures for the moth ; and the Rust-kings, who 
are to their people's strength as rust to armor, 
lay up treasures for the rust; and the Robber- 
kings, treasures for the robber ; but how few 
kings have ever laid up treasures that needed no 
guarding — of which the more thieves there were 
the better. Ruskix : 

988 Sesame and Lilies. Of Kings' 1 Treasuries. 
As tedious as a king. 

989 Shaks. : Much Ado, Act iii., Sc. 5. 

Kisses. 

The sound of a kiss is not so loud as that of a 
cannon, but its echo lasts a deal longer. Holmes : 

990 The Professor at the Breakfast- Table, Ch. 11. 
Kissing with inside lip ? stopping the career of 

laughter with a sigh ? 

991 Shaks.: Wint. Tale, Act i., Sc. 2. 

Knavery. 

Zeno first started that doctrine that knavery is 
the best defence against a knave. 

992 Plutarch: Of Bashfulness. 

A slippery and subtile knave ; a finder of 
occasions, that has an eye can stamj) and counter- 



DICTIONARY OF PROSE QUOTATIONS. 139 



feit advantages, though true advantage never 
presents itself ; a devilish knave ! 

993 Shaks. : Othelld, Act ii., So. 1. 

Knowledge. 

Knowledge is power. 

994 Bacon : Meditationes Sacrce. 
The more knowledge a man has, the better he'll 

do's work ; and feeling's a sort o' knowledge. 

995 George Eliot : Adam Bede, Ch. 52. 
Our only real and valuable knowledge is a 

knowledge of nature itself, and consists of pres- 
entations which correspond to external things. 

996 Ernest Haeckel: The Riddle of the 
Unive rse, Ch . 16. Know ledge and Be lief. 

Knowledge without integrity is dangerous and 
dreadful. 

997 Dr. Johnson: Rasselas, Ch. 41. 
He that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow. 

998 Old Testament: Ecclesiastes i. 18. 

A man with knowledge, but without energy, is 
a house furnished but not inhabited ; a man with 
energy but no knowledge, a house dwelt in but 
unfurnished. John Sterling: 

999 Essays and Tales. Thoughts. 



L. 

Labelling. 

I will give out divers schedules of my beauty : 
it shall be inventoried; and every particle, and 
utensil, labelled to my will : as, item, two lips in- 
different red; item, two gray eyes, with lids to 
them ; item, one neck, one chin, and so forth. 

1000 Shaks. : Tw. Night, Act L, Sc. 5. 



140 DICTIONARY OF PROSE QUOTATIONS. 

Labor. 

Labor, wide as the earth, has its summit in 
heaven. 

1001 Carlyle: Essays. Work. 
When labor quarrels with capital, or capital 

neglects the interests of labor, it is like the hand 
thinking it does not need the eye, the ear, or the 
brain. James Freeman Clarke : 

1002 Self-Culture, p. 268. 
It is not labor in itself that is repugnant to man ; 

it is not the natural necessity for exertion which is 
a curse. It is only labor which produces nothing 
— exertion of which he cannot see the results. 

1003 Henry George : Progress and Poverty, 

p. 420. 
A habit of labor in the people is as essential to 
the health and vigor of their minds and bodies as 
it is conducive to the welfare of the State. 

1004 Alexander Hamilton : Works,, i., 257. 

Labor for labor's sake is against nature. 

1005 John Locke : The Conduct of the 

Understanding , Sec. 16. Haste. 

Immigration of labor is an unmixed good. 
Importation of human freight is an unmitigated 
evil. Wendell Phillips : Speeches, Lectures, 

1006 and Letters. The Chinese. 

Laborers. 

The number of useful and productive laborers 
is everywhere in proportion to the quantity of 
capital stock which is employed in setting them to 
work, and to the particular way in which it is so 
employed. Adam Smith: 

1007 Wealth of Nations, L, Lntroduction. 



DICTIONARY OF PROSE QUOTATIONS. 141 

Lacquey. 

I saw a gay gilt chariot, drawn by fresh pran- 
cing horses; the coachman with a new cockade 
and the lacqueys with insolence and plenty in their 
countenances. 

1008 Steele: Taller. No. 4G. 

Ladies. 

Her artists were quick to give fine expression to 
the new moods of the Middle Ages ; her gentlemen 
were the first in Europe, and the first modern 
ladies were Venetian. C. E. Xortox : 

1009 Church Building in Middle Ages, p. 40. 

Lair. 

House the lion from his lair. 

1010 Walter Scott: The Talisman, Ch. 6. 

Lamp. 

Pythias once, scoffing at Demosthenes, said that 
his arguments smelt of the lanrp. 

1011 Plutarch: Life of Demosthenes. 

Land. 

And besides, the problem of land, at its worst, 
is a by one ; distribute the earth as you will, the 
principal question remains inexorable — Who is 
to dig it? Which of us, in brief word, is to do 
the hard and dirty work for the rest, and for what 
pay? Who is to do the pleasant and clean work, 
and for what pay ? Who is to do no work, and 
for what pay ? Rusktn : 

1012 Sesame and Lilies . Of King's Treasuries. 

Landmark. 

Remove not the ancient landmark. 

1013 Old Testament: Proverbs xxii. 28. 



142 DICTIONARY OF PROSE QUOTATIONS. 

Landscape. 

The true ideal of landscape is precisely the same 
as that of the human form ; it is the expression of 
the specific — not the individual, but the specific — 
characters of every object in their perfection ; there 
is an ideal form of every herb, flower, and tree : it 
is that form to which every individual of the 
species has a tendency to arrive, freed from the 
influence of accident or disease. 

1014 Ruskin: Modern Painters. Preface. 

Second edition. 
Language. 

As to your employment of language, the great 
aim is to be simple, and, in a measure, conversa- 
tional ; and then let eloquence come of itself. If 
most people talked as well in public as in private, 
public meetings would be more interesting. 

1015 Thomas Wentworth Higginson : 
Women and the Alphabet. Study and Work. 

Language ! the blood of the soul, sir, into which 
our thoughts run, and out of which they grow. 

1016 Holmes : The Professor at the 

Breakfast Table, Ch. 2. 

Language, as well as the faculty of speech, was 
the immediate gift of God. 

1017 Noah Webster: Preface to Dictionary . 

Laughter. 

The man who cannot laugh is not only fit for 
treasons, stratagems, and spoils, but his whole 
life is already a treason and a stratagem. 

1018 Carlyle: Sector Resartus, Bk i., Ch. 4. 
There 1 s naught that's more ill-timed than ill- 

timed laughter. 

1019 Catullus: Carmina, xxxvii. (xxxix.), 16. 



DICTIONARY OF PROSE QUOTATIONS. 143 

As the crackling of thorns under a pot, so is the 
laughter of a fool. 

1020 Old Testament : Ecclesiastes vii. 6. 

They laugh that win. 

1021 Siiaks. : Othello, Act iv., Sc. 1. 

A woman without a laugh in her ... is the 
greatest bore in existence. 

1022 Thackeray: Miscellanies. Sketches 

and Travels in London. 

The laughter of man is the contentment of God. 

1023 John Weiss: 

Wit, Humor, and Shakespeare. 

Law. 

Law is not law, if it violates the principles of 
eternal justice. 

1024 Lydia Maria Child. 1861. 

The absolute justice of the State, enlightened by 
the perfect reason of the State. That is law. 

1025 Rufus Choate : Addresses and 
Orations. Conservative Force of the Am. Bar. 

Our human laws are but the copies , more or less 
imperfect, of the eternal laws, so far as we can 
read them. Froude : 

1026 Short Studies on Gt. Subjects. Calvinism. 

Where law ends, tyranny begins. 

1027 William Pitt (Earl of Chatham) : 

Case of Wilkes, Speech. Jan. 9, 1770. 

No law can possibly meet the convenience of 
every one : we must be satisfied if it be beneficial 
on the whole and to the majority. 

1028 Livy: Histories, xxxiv., 3. 



144 DICTIONARY OF PROSE QUOTATIONS. 

There is a higher law than the Constitution. 

1029 William H. Seward: 

Speech, March 11, 1850. 

2d Clo. But is this » law" ? 

1st Clo. Ay, marry is't ; crownerVquest law. 

1030 Shaks. : Hamlet, Act v., Sc. 1. 

Lawyers. 

The lawyer is a gentleman who rescues your 
estate from 3^0 ur enemies, and keeps it to himself. 

1031 Lord Brougham. 

The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers. 

1032 Shaks. : 2 Henry VI, Act iv., Sc. 2. 

'Tis like the breath of an unfee'd lawyer ; you 
gave me nothing for -t. 

1033 Shaks. : King Lear, Act i., Sc. 4. 

Why may not that be the skull of a lawyer ? 
Where be his quiddities now, his quillets, his 
cases, his tenures, and his tricks ? 

1034 Shaks. : Hamlet, Act v., Sc. 1. 

Laziness. A 

Laziness travels so slowly that poverty soon 
overtakes him. 

1035 Benjamin Franklin : Poor RicharcVs Al. 

Humanity is constitutionally lazy. 

1036 Timothy Titcomb (J. G. Holland) : 
Gold Foil. XV. Indolence and Industry. 

Learning. 

Learning hath its infancy when it is but begin- 
ning and almost childish ; then its youth, when it 
is luxuriant and juvenile ; then its strength of 



DICTIONARY OF PROSE QUOTATIONS. 145 

years, when it is solid and reduced ; and, lastly, 
its old age, when it waxeth dry and exhaust. 

1037 Bacon: Essays. 

Of Vicissitudes of Things. 

It will, I believe, be found invariably true, that 
learning was never decried by any learned man. 

1038 Dr. Johnson: The Adventurer. No. 85. 

Leisure. 

Leisure is time for doing" something useful ; this 
leisure the diligent man will obtain, but the lazy 
never; for, "A life of leisure and a life of lazi- 
ness are two things." Benjamin Franklin : 

1039 The Way to Wealth. 

Dionysius the Elder, being asked whether he 
was at leisure, he replied, " God forbid that it 
should ever befall me ! " Plutarch : 

1040 Apophthegms of Kings and Great 

Commanders . Dionysius . 
Letters. 

A letter is a conversation between the absent 
and the present : its destiny is fleeting, and it 
should pass away like the sound of the voice. 

1041 Wilhelm Yon Humboldt : 
Letters to a Female Friend. Yol. i. Xo. 9. 

Libels. 

Though some make light of libels, yet you may 
see by them how the wind sits. As, take a straw, 
and throw it up into the air, you shall see by that 
which way the wind is, which you shall not do by 
casting up a stone. More solid things do not show 
the complexion of the time so well as ballads and 
libels. 

1042 John Selden: Table Talk. Libels. 



146 DICTIONARY OF PROSE QUOTATIONS. 

Liberty, 

The tree of liberty only grows when watered by 
the blood of tyrants. 

1043 Bertraxd Barer:* : 

Speech in the Convention Nationale, 1792. 

My rigor relents : I pardon something to the 
spirit of liberty. Burke : 

104-1 Speech. On Conciliation with America. 

Liberty is rendered eyen more precious by the 
recollection of seryitude. 

10-45 Cicero: Philippiea, iii., 14, 36. 

Liberty is neyer cheap. It is made difficult, 
because freedom is the accomplishment and per- 
fectness of man. Fmersox : 

1046 Miscellanies. The Fugitive Slave Law. 

The sim of liberty is set ; yon must light up the 
candle of industry and economy. 

1047 Bexjamix Feaxklix : In Correspondence. 

Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be pur- 
chased at the price of chains and slavery ? Forbid 
it, Almighty God ! I know not what course others 
may take : but as for me. give me liberty or give 
me death ! 

1048 Patrick Henry : Speech, March, 1775. 

O Liberty ! Liberty ! how many crimes are 
committed in thy name ! (1793). 

1049 Madame Roland : 
Macaulaii's Mirabeau. Edinburgh Bedew, 1832. 

Liberty, when it begins to take root, is a plant 
of rapid growth. 

1050 George Washington: Political Maxims. 



DICTIONARY OF PROSE QUOTATIONS. 147 

God grants liberty only to those who love it, 
and are always ready to guard and defend it. 

1051 Daniel Webster: Speech, United 
Slates Senate, 1833-34. Removal of the Deposits, 

Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty. 

1052 Ascribed to Thomas Jefferson : 
Quoted by Wendell Phillip) s in his Speech, 
11 Public Opinion," Jan. 28, 1852. * 

Libraries. 

The true university of these days is a collection 
of books. Carlyle : 

1053 Heroes and Hero Worship). 
Let every man, if possible, gather some good 

books under his roof, and obtain access for him- 
self and family to some social library. Almost any 
luxury should be sacrificed to this. 

1054 William Ellery Channing : 
Self-Culture. {Address, Boston, Mass., 1838.) 

He that revels in a well-chosen library, has 
innumerable dishes, and all of admirable flavor. 

1055 William Godwin : Tlie Enquirer. 

Of an Early Taste for Reading. 
Life. 

O Life ! an age to the miserable, a moment to 
the happy. 

1056 Bacon : Moral and Historical Works. 

Ornamenta Rationalia. 
Life is not dated merely by years. Events are 
sometimes the best calendars. 

1057 Lord Beaconsfield : Yenetia, Bk. iii. 

1 In a letter dated April 14, 1879, Mr. Phillips wrote : " l Eter- 
nal vigilance is the price of liberty,' has heen attributed to 
Jefferson ; but no one has yet found it in his works or else- 
where." 



148 DICTIONARY OF PROSE QUOTATIONS. 

One life, — a little gleam of time between two 
eternities . Carlyle : Heroes and Hero 

1058 Worship. The Hero as a Man of Letters. 
Life is but another name for action ; and he who 

is without opportunity exists, but does not live. 

1059 George S. Hillard : Six Months in 

Italy, Ch. 31. Concluding Remarks. 

Life is a campaign, not a battle, and has its 
defeats as well as its victories. 

1060 Donn Piatt : Ihe Lone Grave of the 

Shenandoah and Other Tales. 

Life is a shuttle. 

1061 Shaks. : Mer. W. of W., Act v., Sc. 1. 
O excellent! I love long life better than figs. 

1062 Shaks. : Ant. and Cleo., Act i., Sc. 2. 

Light. 

Light is the first of painters. There is no object 
so foul that intense light will not make it beautiful. 

1063 Emerson: Essays. Nature. 
Light, — God's eldest daughter. 

1064 Thomas Fuller : The Holy and Pro- 

fane States. The Holy State. Building. 

He was a burning and a shining light. 

1065 New Testament: Johny. 35. 

Lightness. 

This matter of lightness is the distinctive line 
between savage and civilized bread. 

1066 Harriet Beecher Stowe : 

House and Home Tapers. 

Likeness. 

As like as one pease is to another. 

1067 John Lyly: Euphues, p. 215. 



DICTIONARY OF PROSE QUOTATIONS. 149 

Lily. 

Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow ; 
they toil not, neither do they spin. 

1068 New Testament: Matthew vi. 28. 

Limb. 

A bit of the wing, Roxy, or of the — under 
limb ? 

1069 Holmes: Elsie Vernier, Ch. 7. 

Limbo. 

The gate of Dante's Limbo is left ajar even for 
the ancient philosophers to slip ont. 

1070 Lowell : Among My Books. Dante. 

Limitation. 

We are under physiological and cerebral limita- 
tion; limitations of association, want, condition. 

1071 Horace Bushnell: Nature and the 

Supernatural, p. 51. 

In all well-instituted commonwealths care has 
been taken to limit men's possessions. 

1072 Swift : Thoughts on Various Subjects. 

Limpness. 

A kind providence furnishes the limpest person- 
ality with -a little gum or starch in the form of 
tradition. 

1073 George Eliot: Midcllemarch, i., 25. 

Line. 

I propose to fight it out on this line if it takes 
all summer. Grant : Despatch to Gen. Halleck, 

1074 May 11, 1864. 
Who hath laid the measures thereof, if thou 

knowest ? or who hath stretched the line upon it ? 

1075 Old Testament : Job xxxviii. 5. 



150 DICTIONARY OF PROSE QUOTATIONS. 

Lineaments. 

The lineaments of the body do disclose the dis- 
position and inclination of the mind in general. 

1076 Bacon: Advancement of Learning. 

Linen. 

In any case, let Thisby have clean linen. 

1077 Shaks. : Mid. N. Bream, Act iv., Sc. 2. 
Let's go to that house, for the linen looks white, 

and smells of lavender, and I long to lie in a pair 
of sheets that smell so. 

1078 Izaak Walton: Complete Angler, p. 77 . 

Lionizing. 

Can he do nothing for his Burns but lionize 
him ? 

1079 Carlyle: Past and Present, iv., 6. 

Lion. 

A living doo; is better than a dead lion. 

1080 Old Testament : Ecelesiasles ix. -1. 
To bring in, God shield us ! a lion among ladies, 

is a most dreadful thing : for there is not a more 
fearful wild-fowl than your lion, living ; and we 
ought to look to it. 

1081 Shaks. : Mid. N. Dream, Act iii., Sc. 1. 



Lispers. 

I remember a race of lispers, fine ])ersons, 
who took an aversion to particular letters in our 
language. 

1082 Steele: Taller. Xo. 77. 



Listening. 
It takes ; 
1083 Sir Arthur Helps : Brevia. 



It takes a °Teat uian to make a good listener. 



DICTIONARY OF ' PROSE QUOTATIONS. 151 

Were we as eloquent as angels, we should 
please some men, some women, and some children, 
much more by listening than by talking. 

1084 Coltox : Lacon. 

Literature. 

Literature is the thought of thinking: souls. 

1085 Carlyle : Essays. Memoirs of the 
Life of Scott. (London and Westminster Rev.) 

All literature writes the character of the wise 
man. 

1086 Emerson : Essays. History. 

Literature, taken in all its bearings, forms the 
grand line of demarcation between the human and 
the animal kinodoms. 

1087 William Godwin : The Enquirer. 

Of an Early Taste for Reading. 

Literature, like a gypsy, to be picturesque, 
should be a little ragged. 

1088 Douglas Jerrold : Specimens of 

Jer voids Wit. Literary Men. 

We cultivate literature on a little oatmeal. 

1089 Sydney Smith: A Memoir of the 
Rev. Sydney Smith, by Lady Holland, Ch. 2. 

London. 

London is the epitome of our times, and the 
Rome of to-day. 

1090 Emerson: English Trails. Result. 

In the firm expectation that when London shall 
be a habitation of bitterns, when St. Paul and 
Westminster Abbey shall stand shapeless and 
nameless ruins in the midst of an unpeopled marsh, 



152 DICTIONARY OF PKOSE QUOTATIONS. 

when the piers of Waterloo Bridge shall become 
the nuclei of islets of reeds and osiers, and cast 
the jagged shadows of their broken arches on the 
solitary stream, some Transatlantic commentator 
will be weighing: in the scales of some new and 
now unimagined system of criticism the respective 
merits of the Bells and the Fudges and their his- 
torians. 

1091 Shelley: Dedication to Peter Bell. 

Loneliness. 

The best loneliness is when no human eye has 
rested on our face for a whole day. 

1092 Auerbach : On the Heights. 

(Bennett, Translator.} 
Lord. 

The Lord gave, and the Lord hath taken away; 
blessed be the name of the Lord. 

1093 Old Testament: Job i. 21. 

Loss. 

No man can lose what he never had. 

1094 Izaak Walton : The Comjjlete Angler, 

Pt. i., Ch. 5. 
Lot. 

Suit thyself to the estate in which thy lot is cast. 

1095 Marcus Aukelius : Meditations, vi. 39. 

Love. 

Love is the medicine of all moral evil. By it 
the world is to be cured of sin. 

1096 Henry Ward Beecher: 

Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit. 

Where there is much love, there is usually little 
boldness. Cervantes: Don Quixote, ii., 65. 

1097 {Burke's Trans.) 



DICTIONARY OF PROSE QUOTATIONS. 1^3 

Love is the life of the soul. It is the harmony of 
the universe. William Ellery Cii axxixg: 

1098 Note Book. Lovi . 

Love, like death, a universal leveller of man- 
kind. CONGBEVE: 

1099 The Double-Dealer, Act ii., Sc. 8. 

Our love is inwrought in our enthusiasm as 
electricity is inwrought in the air, exalting its 
power by a subtle presence. 

1100 George Eliot: Adam Bale, Ch. 33. 

Perhaps love is only the highest symbol of 

friendship, as all other things seem symbols of 

love. Emerson : 

1101 Society and Solitude. Domestic Life. 

Love is swift, sincere, pious, pleasant, gentle, 
strong, patieut, faithful, prudent, long-suffering, 
manly, and never seeking her own ; for where- 
soever a man seeketh his own, there he falleth 
from love. Thomas a Kempis : 

1102 Imitation of Christ. (Benham, Trans.) 

A man who does not love sincerely sets his face 
against the distinguishing mark between a friend 
and a flatterer. Le Sage : Gil Bias, 

1103 Bk. vii., Ch. 4. {Smollett, Translator.) 

Love will make men dare to die for their be- 
loved — love alone ; and women as well as men. 
110-1 Plato: The Symposium. I. 473. 

(Jowcli, Translator.) 
*Ros. But are you so much in love as your 
rhymes speak ? 

Orl. Neither rhyme nor reason can express 
how much. 

1105 Shaks. : As You Like Lt, Act iii., Sc. 2. 



154 DICTIONARY OF PROSE QUOTATIONS. 

No sooner met but they looked, no sooner 
looked but they loved, no sooner loved but they 
sighed, no sooner sighed but they asked one an- 
other the reason, no sooner knew the reason but 
they sought the remedy. 

1106 Shaks. : As You Like It, Act v., Sc. 2. 

It is best to love wisely, no doubt ; but to love 
foolishly is better than not to be able to love at all. 

1107 Thackeray: Pendennis, Ch. 6. 

Lovers. 

All mankind love a lover. 

1108 Emerson: Essays. Of Love. 
It is a beautiful trait in the lover's character, 

that he thinks no evil of the object loved. 

1109 Longfellow: Hyperion, Bk. iv., Ch. 2. 
It is as easy to count atomies as to resolve the 

propositions of a lover. 

1110 Shaks. : As You Like It, Act iii., Sc. 2. 

When a man is in love with one woman in a 
family, it is astonishing how fond he becomes of 
every person connected with it. 

1111 Thackeray: The Virginians, Ch. 20. 

Luck. 

Luck, mere luck, may make even madness wis- 
dom. Douglas Jerrold : 

1112 Specimens of Jerrold/ s Wit. Luck. 
Good luck is the willing handmaid of upright, 

energetic character, and conscientious observance 
of duty. * 

1113 Lowell: Among My Books . Wordsworth. 

This is the third time ; I hope good luck lies in 
odd numbers. 

1114 Shaks. : Mer. W. of W., Act v., Sc. 1. 



DICTIONARY OF PROSE QUOTATIONS. 155 

Loyalty. 

We join ourselves to no ])arty that does not carry 
the American flag, and keep step to the music of 
the Union. Rufus Choate : Letter, Oct. 1, 1855, 

1115 To the Whig Convention Worcester, Mass. 

Our country ! In her intercourse with foreign 
nations, may she always be in the right ; but our 
country, right or wrong. 

1116 Stephen Decatur : Toast, 

Norfolk, Va., April, 1846. 
We mutually pledge to each other our lives, our 
fortunes, and our sacred honor. 

1117 Thomas Jefferson: 

Declaration of Independence. 
Luxury. 

What is luxury ? What is comfort for one per- 
son is luxury to another. What was luxury }~ester- 
day is comfort to-day. 

1118 Lyman Abbott: Problems of Life. 

Luxury is a word of uncertain signification, and 
may be taken in a good -as in a bad sense. 

1119 Hume: Essays. XXIV. 

Of Refinement in the Arts. 
Lying. 

Nothing is more criminal, mean, or ridiculous, 
than lying. It is the production either of malice, 
cowardice, or vanity ; but it generally misses of 
its aim in every one of these views ; for lies are 
always detected sooner or later. 

1120 Lord Chesterfield: 

Advice to His Son. Lying. 

The most mischievous liars are those who keep 
sliding; on the ver«;e of truth. 

1121 J. C. and A. W. Hare: Guesses at Truth. 



156 DICTIONARY OF PROSE QUOTATIONS. 

Lord, Lord, how the world is given to lying ! I 
grant you I was down, and out of breath ; and so 
was he : but we rose both at an instant, and fought 
a long hour by Shrewsbury clock. 

1122 Shaks. : 1 Henry IV., Act v., Sec. 4. 

These lies are like the father. that begets them ; 
gross as a mountain, open, palpable. 

1123 Shaks. : 1 Henry IV., Act ii., Sc. 4. 

'Tis as easy as lying. 

1124 Shaks.: Hamlet, Act iii., Sc. 2. 

Shall I tell you a lie ? ■ I do despise a liar, as I 
do despise one that is false ; or as I despise one 
that is not true. 

1125 Shaks. : Mer. W. of W., Act L, Sc. 1. 

There is no lie that many men will not believe ; 
there is no man who does not believe many lies ; 
and there is no man who believes only lies. 

1126 John Sterling: Essays and Tales. 
Thoughts. Crystals from a Cavern. II. 



M. 

Maceration. 

For about two centuries the hideous maceration 
of the body was regarded as the highest proof of 
excellence. 

1127 Lecky: European Morals, iii., 14. 

Machinations. 

We have seen the best of our time : Machi- 
nations, hollowness, treachery, and all ruinous 
disorders, follow us dis quietly to our graves. 

1128 Shaks. : King Lear, Act i., Sc. 2. 



DICTIONARY OF PROSE QUOTATIONS. 157 

Machine, Machinery. 

The human body, like all living bodies, is a 
machine, all the operations of which will, sooner 
or later, be explained on physical principles. 

1129 Huxley: Lay Sermons, p. 339. 
The machinery, Madame, is a term invented by 

the critics, to signify that part which the Deities, 
Angels, or Demons are made to act in a poem. 

1130 Pope : Letter prefixed to Rape of the Loch. 
Thine evermore, most dear lady, whilst this 

machine is to him, Hamlet. 

1131 Shaks. : Hamlet, Act ii., Sc. 2. 

Madness. 

Though this be madness, yet there is method in't. 

1132 Shaks.: Hamlet, Act ii., Sc. 2. 
This is very midsummer madness. 

1133 Shaks. : Tw. Night, Act iii., Sc. 4. 

Magician. 

I have, since I was three years old, conversed 
with a magician, most profound in this art, and 
yet not damnable. 

1134 Shaks. : As You Like Lt, Act v., Sc. 2. 

Magistracy. 

To execute laws is a royal office ; to execute 
orders is not to be a king. However, a political 
executive magistracy, though merely such, is a 
great trust. Burke: 

1135 Reflections on the Rev. in France. 
It is said Labor in thy vocation : which is as 

much to say, as, — let the magistrates be laboring 

■zoo 

men; and therefore should we be magistrates. 

1136 Shaks. : 2 Henry VL, Act iv., Sc. 2. 



158 DICTIONARY OF PROSE QUOTATIONS. 

Magnificence. 

Magnificence cannot be cheap, for what is cheap 
cannot be magnificent. 

1137 Dr. Johnson: Works. V. 458. 

(Oxford edition, 1825.) 

Majorities and Minorities. 

If by the mere force of numbers a majority 
should deprive a minority of any clearly written 
constitutional right, it might, in a moral point of 
view, justify revolution — certainly would if such 
a right were a vital one. Lincoln : 

1138 First Inaugural Address, March 4, 1861. 

Majority. 

One on God's side is a majority. 

1139 Wendell Phillips: Speech, Nov. 1, 1859. 

Malady. 

It is the disease of not listening, the malady of 
not marking, that I am troubled withal. 

1140 Shaks. : 2 Henry IV., Act i., Sc. 2. 

Malcontents. 

Thou art the Mars of malcontents. 

1141 Shaks. : Mer. W. of W., Act i., Sc. 3. 

Malefactor. 

Benefactors ? Well, what benefactors are they ? 
are they not malefactors ? 

1142 Shaks.: M.for M., Act iii., Sc. 1. 

Malice. 

In charity to all mankind, bearing no malice or 
ill-will to any human being, and even compas- 
sionating those who hold in bondage their fellow- 
men, not knowing what they do. 

1143 John Quincy Adams: 
Letter to A. Bronson, July 30, 1838. 



DICTIONARY OF PROSE QUOTATIONS. 159 

You speak unskilfully ; or, if your knowledge 
be more, it is much darkened in your malice. 

1144 Shaks. : M. for M., Act iii., Sc. 2. 

Wit larded with malice, and malice forced with 
wit. 

1145 Shaks. : TroiL and Cress,, Act v., Sc. 1. 

Mammonism, 

Alas ! If Hero-worship become Dilettantism, 
and all except Mammonism be a vain grimace, 
how much on this most earnest Earth has gone 
and is ever more going to fatal destruction. 

1146 Carlyle: Past and Present, ii. 

Man. 

When the Bible says " Man," it does not mean 
this man or that man ; but Humanity ! 

1147 Henry W. Bellows : Man and 

Mankind. Old and New, Vol. L, p. 456. 

In one completed man there are the forces of 
many men. Self-control is self -completion. 

1148 Bulwer-Lytton : Caxloniana. 

Essay xx. On Self- Control. 

We should never forget that God has evidently 
related man to nature as he has, that, by his in- 
vestigations and labors, he may become intellec- 
tually stronger and greater. Man was not made 
for nature, but nature was made for man. 

1149 George C. Lorimer: Christianity in 
the Nineteenth Century. The Divine and Human. 

God made him, and therefore let him pass for a 
man. 

1150 Shaks. : M. of Venice, Act L, Sc. 2. 



160 DICTIONARY OF PROSE QUOTATIONS. 

Manhood. 

Power, in its quality and degree, is the measure 
of manhood. J. G. Holland: 

1151 Plain Talks on Familiar Subjects. 

Which makes much against my manhood, if I 
should take from another's pocket, to put into 
mine. 

1152 Shaks. : Henry V. 9 Act iii., Sc. 2. 

Mankind. 

The history of mankind is little else than a nar- 
rative of designs which have failed, and hopes 
that have been disappointed. 

1153 Dr. Johnson: Works. IX. 398. 

(Oxford edition, 1825.) 

The common curse of mankind, folly and igno- 
rance, be thine in great revenue ! 

1154 Shaks. : Troil. and Cress., Act ii., Sc. 3. 

Manners. 

Manners must adorn knowledge and smooth its 
way through the world. Like a great rough 
diamond, it may do very well in a closet by way 
of curiosity, and also for its intrinsic value. 

1155 Lord Chesterfield: 
Letter to His Son, July 1, 1748. 

Intercourse with women is the element of good 
manners. Goethe: 

1156 Elective Affinities. 11. 5. (Bohn edition.) 

March. 

Cces. The ides of March are come. 
Sooth. Ay, Ccesar ; but not gone. 

1157 Shaks. : Jul. Ccesar, Act iii., Sc. 1. 



DICTIONARY OF PROSE QUOTATIONS. 161 

Marriage. 

When it shall please God to bring thee to man's 
estate, use great providence and circumspection in 
choosing thy wife ; for thence will spring all thy 
future good or evil : and it is an action of life, like 
unto a stratagem of war, wherein a man can err 
but once. William Lord Blrghley : 

1158 Ten Precepts to His Son. 

Marriage, considered merely in its financial and 
business relations, may be regarded as a perma- 
nent co-partnership. 

1159 Thomas Went worth Higginson: 

Women and the Alphabet. The Home. 

Marriage is evidently the dictate of nature ; men 
and women are made to be companions of each 
other, and therefore I cannot be persuaded but that 
marriage is one of the means of happiness. 

1160 Dr. Johnson: Basselas, Ch. 28. 

After marriage arrives a reaction, sometimes a 
big, sometimes a little one ; but it comes sooner or 
later, and must be tided over by both parties if 
they desire the rest of their lives to go with the 
current. Rudyard Kipling : 

1161 Plain Tales from the Hills. 

To church in the morning, and there saw a wed- 
ding in the church, which I have not seen many 
a day; and the young people so merry one with 
another ! and strange to see what delight we 
married people have to see these poor fools de- 
coyed into our condition, every man and woman 
gazing and smiling at them. 

1162 Pepvs: Diary, Dec. 25, 1665. 



162 DICTIONARY OF PROSE QUOTATIONS. 

Martyrdom. 

His wife, with nine small children and one at 
the breast, following him to the stake. 

1163 Martyrdom of John Rogers, Burned at 

Smithfield, Feb. 14, 1551. 
Matrimony. 

Matrimony has made you eloquent in love. 

1161 Congreve:"!Z%c Way of the World, 

Act ii., Sc. 8. 

Matrimony — the high sea for which no com- 
pass has yet been invented. 

1165 Heine: Wit, Wisdom, and Pathos. 

Musical Notes from Paris, 
Matter. 

How great a matter a little fire kindleth ! 

1166 New Testament: James iii. 5. 

Maxims. 

Maxims are to the intellect what laws are to 
actions ; they do not enlighten, but they guide and 
direct, and, although themselves blind, arc pro- 
tective. Joubert : Pensees. No. 138. 

1167 (Attwell, Translator.} 

Meanness. 

An infallible characteristic of meanness is 
cruelty. Dr. Johnson: Works. VI. 176. 

1168 (Oxford edition, 1825.) 

Measures. 

Measures, not men, have always been my mark. 

1169 Goldsmith: The Good- Natured Man, 

Act ii. 
Meat. 

This dish of meat is too good for any but an- 
glers, or very honest men. 

1170 Izaak Walton: The Complete Angler. 



DICTIONARY OF PROSE QUOTATIONS. 163 

Medicine. 

If the rascal have not given me medicines to 
make me love him, I'll be hanged. 

1171 Shaks. : 1 Henry IV., Act ii., Sc. 2. 

Meditation. 

The art of meditation may be exercised at all 
hours, and in all places ; and men of genius, in 
their walks, at table, and amidst assemblies, turn- 
ing the eye of the mind inwards, can form an 
artificial solitude ; retired amidst a crowd, calm 
amidst distraction, and wise amidst folly. 

1172 Isaac Disraeli : Literary Character, 

Ch. 11. 

Meekness. 

Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the 
earth. 

1173 New Testament : MatlheivY.5. 

Melancholy. 

Fear and sorrow are the true characters and in- 
separable companions of most melancholy. 

1174 Burton: Anatomy of Melancholy, 

Pt. i., Sec. 1, Mem. 3, Subs. 2. 

I can suck melancholy out of a song. 

1175 Shaks. : As You Like It, Act ii., Sc. 5. 

Melodrama. 

When I use the term melodrama, I mean by 
it that which mimics the tragic, but falls short of 
it; the tragic, imitated, but so environed, that 
it loses dignity and has something of the inflated 
and grotesque. Ouida : Critical Studies. 

1176 The Italian Novels of Marion Crawford. 



164 DICTIONARY OF PROSE QUOTATIONS. 

Memory. 

Oblivion is the dark page whereon memory 
writes her lightbeam characters, and makes them 
legible ; were it all light, nothing conld be read 
t-here, any more than if it were all darkness. 

1177 Carjlyle : Essays. On History Again. 
(Eraser's Magazine. Vol. yii. No. xli. 1833.) 

The memory will not be ruled as to what it 
shall bind and what it shall loose. 

1178 W. D. Ho wells: Literary Friends and 
Acquaintance. The White Mr. Longfellow. 

The true art of memory is the art of attention. 

1179 Dr. Johnson: The Idler. No. 74. 

It may be said that his wit shines at the expense 
of his memory. 

1180 Le Sage: Gil Bias, Bk. iii., Ch. 11. 

Grant but memory to us, and we can lose noth- 
ing by death. Whittier: 

1181 My Summer with Dr. Singleton, Ch. 5. 

Mercy. 

Blessed are the merciful : for they shall obtain 
mercy. 

1182 New Testament: Matthew v. 7. 

Sweet mercy is nobility's true badge. 

1183 Shaks. : Titus Andronicus, Act i., Sc. 2. 



Merit. 

The assumption of merit is easier, less embarras- 
sing, and more effectual than the positive attain- 
ment of it. 

1184 Hazlitt: Characteristics. No. 21. 



DICTIONARY OF PROSE QUOTATIONS. 165 

Merriment. 

Where be your gibes now ; your gambols, your 
songs ? your flashes of merriment, that were wont 
to set the table on a roar. 

1185 Shaks. : Hamlet, Act v., Sc. 1. 
I had rather have a fool to make me merry than 

experience to make me sad. 

1186 Shaks. : As You Like It, Act iv., Sc. 1. 

Metaphors. 

I do not object to these metaphors, I believe in 
metaphors. I go the length of holding that you 
never get nearer to truth than in a metaphor ; but 
you have not told this man the whole truth about 
your metaphor, nor have you touched his soul or 
his affections with what lies beneath that metaphor ; 
and it falls upon his ear as a tale he has heard a 
thousand times before. 

1187 Henry Drummond : The New Evangelism. 

Method. 

Dispatch is the soul of business ; and nothing 
contributes more to dispatch than method. Lay 
down a method for everything, and stick to it 
inviolably, as far as unexpected incidents may 
allow. 

1188 Lord Chesterfield: Letters to his Son. 

London, Feb. 5, 1750. 
Milk. 

Such as have need of milk, and not of strong 
meat. 

1189 New Testament : Hebrews v. 12. 

Millstone. 

It were better for him that a millstone were 
hanged about his neck, and he cast into the sea. 

1190 New Testament: Luke xvii. 2. 



166 DICTIONARY OF PROSE QUOTATIONS. 

Mind. 

It is mind, after all, which does the work of the 
world, so that the more there is of mind, the more 
work will be accomplished. 

1191 William Ellery Chaining: Self- 
Cidture. {Boston, Mass., September, 1838.) 

Babylon in all its desolation is a sight not so 
awful as that of the human mind in ruins. 

1192 Scrope Dayies : Letter to Thomas Raikes. 
The mind can weaYe itself warmly in the cocoon 

of its own thoughts, and dwell a hermit anywhere. 

1193 Lowell: My Study Windows. On a 

Certain Condescension in Foreigners. 
Miracles. 

A miracle constantly repeated becomes a process 
of nature. What distinguishes a miracle from a 
process of nature is simply that it is not repeated ; 
it is extraordinary, and for that reason attracts 
attention. 

1194 Lyman Abbott: Problems of Life, 
Looking for a comprehensiYe description of 

miracles, we might say that they constitute a lan- 
guage of heaYen embodied in material signs, by 
which communication is established between the 
Deity and man, outside the daily course of nature 
and experience. Gladstone : 

1195 Later Gleanings. Robert Elsmere. 

Mirth. 

Mirth is like a flash of lightning, that breaks 
through a gloom of clouds, and glitters for a 
moment ; cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight 
in the mind, and fills it with a steady and perpet- 
ual serenity. 

1196 Addison: The Spectator. No. 381. 



DICTIONARY OF PROSE QUOTATIONS. 161 

From the crown of his head to the sole of his 
foot, he is all mirth ; he hath twice or thrice cut 
Cupid's bow string, and the little hangman dare 
not shoot at him ; he hath a heart as sound as a 
bell, and his tongue is the clapper, for what his 
heart thinks, his tongue speaks. 

1197 Siiaks. : Much Ado, Act iii., Sc. 2. 

Miser. 

Punishment of a miser, — to pay the drafts of 
his heir in his tomb. Hawthorne : 

1198 American Note-Books. July 10, 1838. 

The miser is as much without what he has as 
what he has not. 

1199 Publius Syrus: Maxim 480. 

Misery. 

Misery acquaints a man with strange bed- 
fellows. 

1200 Shaks. : Tempest, Act ii., Sc. 2. 

Misfortune. 

In misfortune, even to smile is to offend. 

1201 Bacon: Ornamenta Rational ia. 

Misfortunes have their dignity and their re- 
deeming power. George S. Millard : 

1202 Six Months in Italy, Ch. 8. Rome. 

Our greatest misfortunes come to us from our- 
selves. ^ Rousseau: 

1203 Emile. (Eleanor Worthington, Trans.) 

In one's own misfortunes one should so bear 
oneself as to give the rein to sorrow only as far as 
is necessary, not as far as is customary. 

1204 Seneca: De Tranquillitate Animi, xv., G, 



168 DICTIONARY OF PROSE QUOTATIONS. 

Mob. 

The mob have no judgment, no discretion, no 
discrimination, no consistency; and it has always 
been the opinion of men of sense that popular 
movements must be acquiesced in, but not always 
commended. 

1205 Cicero : Pro Plancio, iv., 9. 

No nation can last which has made a mob of 
itself, however generous at heart. Buskin : 

1206 Sesame and Lilies. Of Kings'' Treasuries. 

Moderation, 

Moderation is the silken string running through 
the pearl chain of all virtues. Bishop Hall: 

1207 Christian Moderation, Introduction. 

Modesty. 

Modesty seldom resides in a breast that is not 
enriched with nobler virtues. Goldsmith : 

1208 She Stopjis to Conquer, Act i. 

Monarchy. 

The trappings of a monarchy would set up an 
ordinary commonwealth. Dr. Johnson : 

1209 Lives of the Poets. Milton. 

Monasticism. 

Three virtues constituted the sum of the Bene- 
dictine discipline. Silence with solitude and 
seclusion, humility, obedience, which in the strong 
language of its laws, extended to impossibilities. 
All is thus concentrated on self. It was the man 
isolated from his kind, who was to rise to a lonely 
perfection. Milman : 

1210 History of Latin Christianity ,Y 'ol . i., Ch. 6. 



DICTIONARY OF PBOSE QUOTATIONS. J 69 

Money. 

Character is money; and according as the mail 
earns or spends the money, money in turn be- 
comes character. 

1211 Bulwer-Lytton : Oaxloniana. 
Essay xxi. On the Management of Money. 

Money, Paul, can do anything. Dickens : 

1212 Dombey and Son, Ch. 8. 

Money can beget money, and its offspring can 
beget more, and so on. 

1213 Benjamin Franklin: Letters. 

Advice to a Young Tradesman. 
The love of money is the root of all evil. 

1214 New Testament: 1 Timothy vi. 10. 

Put money in thy purse Fill thy purse 

with money. 

1215 Shaks. : Othello, Acti., Sc. 3. 

Monotony. 

The monotony of sunshine is like any other 
monotony: it tends to lull the mind into a con- 
dition of fixed routine, in which activity is still 
possible, yet repeats itself as the days do. 

1216 Hamerton: The Sylvan Year, July. 

Monuments. 

If a man do not erect in this age his own tomb 
ere he dies, he shall live no longer in monument 
than the bell rings and the widow weeps. . . . 
An hour in clamor, and a quarter in rheum. 

1217 Shaks. : Much Ado, Act v., Sc. 2. 

Monuments and eulogy belong to the dead. 

1218 Daniel Webster: Address, Charles- 

town, Mass., June 17, 1825. 



170 DICTIONARY OF PROSE QUOTATIONS. 

Moods. 

Nature has no moods. They belong to man 

alone. Auerbach : 

1219 On the Heights. {Bennett, Translator.} 

Moonlight. 

Moonlight is sculpture. 

1220 Hawthorne: American Note- Books, 1838. 

Morality. 

Morality is good, and is accepted of God, as far 
as it goes ; but the difficulty is, it does not go far 
enough. 

1221 Henry Ward Beecher: Life Thoughts. 

His morality is of the most primitive kind ; or 
rather, he has none whatever, no more than has a 
South- Sea islander lying in the sun under a cocoa- 
nut tree whilst the surf bathes his naked limbs. 

1222 Ouida : Critical Studies. 

Qabriele DAnnunzio. 
There are many religions, but there is only one 
morality. Ruskin : Lectures in Art. 

1223 l Lecture ii., Sec. 37. 

Moral Suasion, 

I believe in moral suasion. The age of bullets 
is over. The age of ideas is come. I think that 
is the rule of our age. Wendell Phillips : 

1224 Speeches, Lectures, and Letters. 

Morning. 

If I take the wings of the morning, and dwell 
in the uttermost parts of the sea ; even there shall 
thy hand lead me, and thy right hand shall hold 
me. 

1225 Old Testament: Psalm cxxxix. 9, 10. 



DICTIONARY OF PROSE QUOTATIONS. 171 

Mother, Motherhood. 

You mother are not responsible to set the whole 
world right ; you are responsible only to make one 
pure, sacred, and divine household. 

1226 Lyman Abbott: Problems of Life. 

Where there is a mother in the house, matters 
speed well. A. Bronson Alcott : 

1227 Table Talk. IV. Nurture. Mothers. 

No artist work is so high, so noble, so grand, 
so enduring, so important for all time, as the 
making of character in a child. 

1228 Charlotte Cushman : Letters and 

Memories of her Life, Ch. 8. 
Motion. 

Another insuperable difficulty presents itself 
when we contemplate the transfer of motion. 
Habit blinds us to the marvellousness of this 
phenomenon. Familiar with the fact from child- 
hood, we see nothing remarkable in the ability of 
a moving thing to generate movement in a thing 
that is stationary. Herbert Spencer : 

1229 Synthetic Philosophy . First Principles. 

Motive. 

What makes life dreary is the want of motive. 

1230 George Eliot : Daniel Deronda, 

Bk. viii., Ch. 65. 

However brilliant an action, it should not be 

esteemed great unless the result of a great motive. 

1231 La Rochefoucauld : Reflections; or, 

Sentences and Moral Maxims. No. 160. 

Mountains. 

They came to the Delectable Mountains. 

1232 Bunyan: Pilgrim's Progress, Pt. 1. 



172 DICTIONARY OF PROSE QUOTATIONS. 

Mountains never shake hands. Their roots may 
touch ; they may keep together some way up ; but 
at length they part company, and rise into indi- 
vidual, insulated peaks. So is it with great men. 

1233 J. C. and A. W. Hare : Guesses at Truth. 

Mountebanks, 

Surely, as there are mountebanks for the natural 
body, so there are mountebanks for the politic 
body; men that undertake great cures, and per- 
haps have been lucky in two or three experiments, 
but want the grounds of science, and therefore 
cannot hold out. 

1234 Bacon: Essays. Of Boldness. 

Mourning. 

It is better to go to the house of mourning than 
to go to the house of feasting. 

1235 Old Testament: Ecclesiastes vii. 2. 



Murder. 

Murder will out. 

1236 Cervantes : Don Quixote, Pt. L, Bk. iii. 

Murder, like talent, seems occasionally to run 
in families. George Henry Lewes : 

1237 Physiology of Common Life, Ch. 12. 

Every unpunished murder takes away some- 
thing from the security of every man's life. 

1238 Daniel Webster: Argument, Salem, 
1830. The Murder of Capt. Joseph White. 

Music. 

Music is the poor man's Parnassus. 

1239 Emerson: Letters and Social Aims. 

Poetry and Imagination. 



DICTIONARY OF PROSE QUOTATIONS. 173 

Music, when combined with a pleasurable idea, 
is poetry ; music without the idea is simply music ; 
the idea without the music is prose from its very 
definiteness. 

1240 Edgar Allan Poe: Letter to Mr 

It will discourse most eloquent music. 

1241 Shaks. : Hamlet, Act iii., Sc. 2. 
Nothing is more irritatino- to the musical tern- 

perament than to hear the people, who are always 
inspired with an insane desire to make a joyful 
noise, get hold of a really fine tune and make it 
afterward hateful to delicate ears. 

1242 Dr. John Watson (<< Ian Maclaren"): 

Church Folks, Ch. 6. 

Musing. 

I like to go into the garden these warm latter 
days, and muse. To muse is to sit in the sun, and 
not think of anything. 

1243 Charles Dudley Warner: 

My Summer in a Garden. Seventeenth Week. 

Mystery. 

The mystery of mysteries is to view machines 
making machines. 

1244 Disraeli {Earl of Beaconsfield) : 

Coningsby, Bk. iv., Ch. 2. 

N. 
Nail. 

You have there hit the nail on the head. 

1245 Rabelais: Works, Bk. iii., Ch. 34. 

Names. 

I agree with you entirely in condemning the 
mania of giving names to objects of any kind after 



i -= ::::.:: ;>f prosb quotatioks. 

t_ > still living. Death alone can seal the title 
«f any man to Ms honor, by putting it out of his 
power to forfeit it. Thomas Jefferson : 

1 tier to Dr. Benjamin Rush. 

I r : rliness of Bunyan's names and the 

sverj gss of his scenery, toe, put us off our 

guard* and we soon find ourselves on as easy a 

footinsr with his allegorical beings as we might 

r . A 3i _ Socrates in a dream. 

1247 ] . mes i . — zll Lowell : 

A long My Books. Spenser. 

7. 7.- ..r .:as noticed Milton's fondness of son- 
orous proper names, which have not only an ac- 
qiiired ima_ value by association, and so 

sea '€ : -:en our poetic sensibilities, but have 

like merely musical sagnifieance. 

li^-S Fames Russeix Lowell: 

Among My Books. Milton. 

I cannot tell what the k ms his name is. 
ii±c Shaks. : Mer. W. of W., Act in., Sc. 2. 

N = :i : :: s 

I : • ; :t : :: i . rriotism are reciprocal. This 

is the road that all great nations have trod. 

1 . : k as ] [ Aua : us : Speech, Dec. 1811. 

Z:\':~\ :::.:'.'- :n." ::::._ ::::::_::::::: — . ":".;: it is 
institutions alone that can create a nation. 

1251 Disraeli Eakl )fI ea : -:eld) : 

\. >:ch. Manchester, 1866. 

_r> nation y however powerful, any more than an 
individual,, can be unjust with impunity. Sooner 



d: prose quotati 

in the besinnin<r. will find occasion phrsicallv to 

- 

infli its - utenee ou the unjv s 

_ _ Thomas Jefft - 

tar to James Jiadison. 
ire- 
There is a majesty and mystery in nature, take 
her as you will. The essence of poetry comes 
breath in ir to a mind that feels frtmi rovinee 

of her empire, ilyle : Thomas Carlyle* 

F J F rs, bg Frot 

X store repairs her rava^; cs, — repairs them 
with her sunshine and with human labor. 

1 : Eliot : Ike Mill on the Floss* 

Bk. vii. Conclusion- 

10 s] rndthrift, but takes the shor 
way to her ends 

1252 mxrs-»> 

X a tore- and truth are one. and immutable, and 
yiarable as beauty and k 

Mrs jhs >i Sketches of Art* 
Literature* and Character* Pt. i .,S 

Nature seems to hare been created to inspire 
feeling. - Starr Kih 

1257 The H kite Hills. The Androscoggin Talley. 

Nature 's above rt, 

1258 Sbaks King Lear* Act iv. . Sc 

To hold, as 'twere, the mirror up to nature. 
Si UBS Hamlet, Act iii - 

I hare thought some of Nature's journeymen had 
made men and not made them well, they imitated 
humanity so abominably. 

5. : Hamlet* Act iii - 



176 DICTIONARY OF PROSE QUOTATIONS. 

This talk of subduing Nature is pretty much 
nonsense. I do not intend to surrender in the 
midst of the summer campaign, yet I cannot but 
think how much more peaceful my relations would 
now be with the primal forces, if I had let Nature 
make the garden according to her own notion. 

1261 Charles Dudley Warner: 
My Summer in a Garden. Seventh Week. 

Navigators. 

The winds are always on the side of the ablest 
navigators. Edward Gibbon : 

1262 Decline and Fall of the Boman Empire. 



Necessity. 

Make a virtue of necessity. 

1263 Burton: Anatomy of Melancholy ', 

Pt. iii., Sec. iii., Mem. 14, Subs. 1. 
Necessity urges desperate measures. 

1264 Cervantes: Don Quixote, 

Pt. L, Bk. iii., Ch. 23. 

Necessity has no law. I know some attorneys 
of the name. Benjamin Franklin : 

1265 Poor Richard's Al. 

Necessity is the argument of tyrants ; it is the 
creed of slaves. 

1266 William Pitt (Earl of Chatham) : 

Speech on the Indian Bill, Nov., 1783. 
Necessity, my friend, is the mother of courage, 
as of invention. Walter Scott: 

1267 Quentin Durward, Ch. 23. 

As if we were villains by necessity ; fools by 
heavenly compulsion. 

1268 Shaks. : King Lear, Act i., Sc. 2. 



DICTIONARY OF PROSE QUOTATIONS. 177 

Negligence 

A little neglect may breed great mischief. For 
want of a nail the shoe was Lost"; for want of a 
shoe the horse was lost ; and for want of a h< 
the rider was lost, being- overtaken and slain by 
the enemy : all for want of a little rare about a 
horse -shoe nail. 

1269 Benjamin Franklin: Poor Richard's Al. 

Neighbor 

Christianity teaches us to love our neighbor as 
ourself ; modern society acknowledges no neigh- 
bor. Disraeli (Earl of Beaconsfield) : 

1270 Sybil, Bk. ii., Ch. 5. 

Love thy neighbor as thyself. 

1271 New Testament: Matthew xix. 19. 

News. 

Tell him, there's a post come from my master, 
with his horn full of news. 

1272 Shaks. : M. of Venice, Act v., Sc. 1. 

There's villanous news abroad. 

1273 Shaks. : 1 Henry IV.. Act ii., Sc. -i 

Newspapers. 

Newspapers are the schoolmasters of the com- 
mon people. That endless book, the newspaper, 
is our national glory. 

1274 Hexrv Ward Beechek : 

Proverbs from Plymouth Pirfpii. The Press. 

Newspapers always excite curiosity. No one 
ever lays one down without a feeling of disap- 
pointment. 

1275 Charles Lamb: Essays of Elia. 

1> Thoughts on Books and Reading. 



178 DICTIONARY OF PROSE QUOTATIONS. 

The newspapers ! Sir, the}^ are the most vil- 
lanous, licentious, abominable, infernal — Not 
that I ever read them ! No, I make it a rule never 
to look into a newspaper. Sheridan : 

1276 The Critic, Act i., Sc. 2. 

Nicknames. 

A nickname is the hardest stone that the devil 
can throw at a man, Hazlitt : 

1277 Political Essays. On Court Influence. 

Nicknames and whippings, when they are once 
laid on, no one has discovered how to take off. 

1278 L an dor : Imaginary Conversations. 

Peter leopold and President Bit Paty. 
Night. 

Day unto day uttereth speech, and night unto 
night showeth knowledge. 

1279 Old Testament : Psalm xix. 2. 

Nobility. 

Nobility of birth commonly abateth industry; 
and he that is not industrious envieth him that is. 
Besides, noble persons cannot go much higher; 
and he that standeth at a stay when others rise 
can hardly avoid motions of envy. 

1280 Bacon: Essays. Of Nobility. 

Noses, 

And hold one another's noses to the grindstone 
hard. Burton : 

1281 Anatomy of Melancholy, Pt. iii., Sec. i. 

Nothingness. 

Nothing proceeds from nothingness, as also 
nothing passes away into non-existence. 

1282 Marcus Aurelius : Quod sibi, etc., iv., 4. 



DICTIONARY OF PROSE QUOTATIONS. 179 

Notoriety. 

He who has once become notorious in the busy 
centres of life, is not permitted even to die in 
silence and obscurity. 

1283 Cicero : Pro Quinlio, xv., 50. 
The more you are talked about, the less power- 
ful you are. 

1284 Disraeli (Earl of Beaconsfield) : 

Endymion, Ch. 36.. 
Novelty. 

New things, like strangers, are more admired 
and less favored. 

1285 Bacon : Ornamenla Bationalia, 

Number. 

Number itself importeth not much in armies, 
where the people are of weak courage ; for (as 
Virgil says) it never troubles a wolf how many 
the sheep be. 

1286 Bacon : Ornamenta Bationalia. 

O. 

Oaths. 

Good men should seem to offer their character 
as security rather than their oath. 

1287 Isocrates: Ad Demonicum, iv., 22. 

(Stephens, p. 6, Z>.) 

For it comes to pass oft that a terrible oath, 
with a swaggering accent sharply twanged off, 
gives manhood more approbation than ever proof 
itself would have earned him. 

1288 Siiaks. : Tw. Night, Act iii., Sc. 4. 

The accusing spirit, which flew up to Heaven's 
chancery with the oath, blushed as he gave it in ; 



180 DICTIONARY OF PROSE QUOTATIONS. 

and the recording angel, as he wrote it down, 
dropped a tear uj)on the word, and blotted it out 
forever. 

1289 Laurence Sterne : Tristram Shandy, 

Vol. vi.. Ch. 8. (Original Edition.) 

Obduracy. 

By this hand, thou think* st me as far in the 
devil's book, as thou, and Falstaff , for obduracy 
and persistency. 

1290 Shaks. : 2 Henry IV., Act ii., Sc. 2. 

Obedience. 

Everywhere the flower of obedience is intelli- 
gence. Obey a man with cordial loyalty and you 
will understand him. 

1291 Phillips Brooks: Sermons. 
II. The Withheld Completions of life. 

Let thy chilcVs first lesson be obedience, and the 
second will be what thou wilt. 

1292 Benjamin Franklin : Poor Richard's Al. 

THien men have learnt to reverence a life of 
passive unreasoning obedience as the highest type 
of perfection, the enthusiasm and passion of free- 
dom necessarily decline. 

1293 Lecky: European Morals, Ch. 2. 

Obligation. 

The very notion of virtue implies the notion of 
obligation . D. Stewart: 

1294 Outlines of Moral Philosojihy, Ch. 6. 

Obliquity. 

I venerate an honest obliquity of understanding. 

1295 Lamb : All Fools' 1 Day. 



DICTIONARY OF PROSE QUOTATIONS. 181 

Obscurity. 

He is happiest of whom the world says least, 
good or bad. Thomas Jefferson : 

1296 Letter to John Adams, 1786. 

Observation. 

By my penny of observation. 

1297 Shaks. : Love's L. Lost, Act iii., Sc. 1. 

Occasion. 

For occasion hath all her hair on her forehead ; 
when she is past, you may not recall her. She hath 
no tuft whereby you can lay hold on her, for she 
is bald on the hinder part of her head, and never 
returneth again. Rabelais : Gargantua, 

1298 Bk. i., Ch. 37. (Urquhart and Motteux, 

Translators.) 
Occupation. 

A mind without occupation is like a cat without 
a ball of yarn. 

1299 Samuel Willoughby Duffield : 
Eric; or, The Fall of a Crown, Act L, Sc. 1. 

Every one has a natural right to choose that 
vocation in life which he thinks most likely to 
give him comfortable subsistence. 

1300 Thomas Jefferson : 

Thoughts on Lotteries, 1826. 
Ocean. 

The sleeping ocean lay like a waving and glit- 
tering mirror, smooth and polished on its surface. 

1301 Jas. Fenimore Cooper: The Red Rover. 

The sea drowns out humanity and time : it has 
no sympathy with either, for it belongs to eternity, 
and of that it sings its monotonous song for ever 
and ever. Holmes : 

1302 The Autocrat of the Breakfast- Table, Ch. 11. 



182 DICTIONARY OF PROSE QUOTATIONS. 

I am happy in contemplating the peace, pros- 
perity, liberty, and safety of my country, and es- 
pecially the wide ocean, the barrier of all these. 

1303 Thomas Jefferson : 
Letter to Marquis Lafayette, 1811. 

October. 

October is the month for painted leaves. . . . 
As fruits and leaves and the day itself acquire a 
bright tint just before they fall, so the year near 
its setting. October is its sunset sky ; November 
the later twilight. 

1304 Henry D. Thoreau: Excursion. 

Autumnal Tints. 

Odors. 

The rankest compound of villanous smell that 
ever offended nostril. 

1305 Shaks. : Mer. W. of W., Act iii., Sc. 5. 

Offence. 

The guilt of any offence whatever, varies in- 
versely with the strength and clearness of the evi- 
dence which establishes its criminality. 

1306 Gladstone : Later Gleanings, 

Heresy and Schism. 

Office. 

Whenever a man has cast a longing eye on 
offices, a rottenness begins in his conduct. 

1307 Thomas Jefferson : 

Letter to Tench Coxe, 1799. 

Thou hast seen a farmer's dog bark at a beggar ? 
. . . And the creature run from the cur ? There 
thou might'st behold the great image of authority : 
a dog's obeyed in office. 

1308. Shaks. ; King Lear, Act iv., Sc. 6 



DICTIONARY OF PROSE QUOTATIONS. 183 

Old Age. 

Never sa} r you are too old. You do not say it 
now, perhaps ; but by and by, when the hair 
grows gray and the eyes grow dim and the young 
despair comes to curse the old age, you will say, 
"It is too late for me." Never too late ! Never 
too old ! How old are you, — thirty, fifty, eighty ? 
What is that in immortality ? 

1309 Lyman Abbott: Problems of Life. 

I am also old : age is the worst malady that I 
endure and will kill me some day, perhaps just at 
the moment when I am most plagued by curiosity 
to see what turn events will take in the world. 

1310 Bismarck: " Conversations with 
Prince Bismarck," by Heinrich von Poschinger. 

Old age is the repose of life ; the rest that pre- 
cedes the rest that remains. 

1311 Robt. Collyer: The Life lhat Noiv Is . 

Tranquillity is the summum bonum of old age. 

1312 Thomas Jefferson : 

Letter to Mark L. Hill, 1820. 
Thou shouldst not have been old till thou hadst 
been wise. 

1313 Shaks. : King Lear, Act i., Sc. 5. 

Opinion. 

A man's opinions, look you, are generally of 
much more value than his arguments. 

1314 Holmes: The Professor at the 

Breakfast- Table, Gh. 5. 
Difference of opinion was never, with me, a 
motive of separation from a friend. 

1315 Thomas Jefferson: 
Letter to President Monroe, 1824. 



184 DICTIONARY OF PROSE QUOTATIONS. 

Is uniformity of opinion desirable ? No more 
than that of face and stature. 

1316 Thomas Jefferson -.Notes on Virginia. 
Popular opinions, on subjects not palpable to 

sense, are often true, but seldom or never the 
whole truth. John Stuart. Mill : 

1317 On Liberty, Ch. 2. 
Truth is one forever absolute, but opinion is 

truth filtered through the moods, the blood, the 
disposition of the spectator. 

1318 Wendell Phillips : Orations, 
Speeches, Lectures, and Letters. Idols. 

A plague of opinion ! a man may wear it on 
both sides, like a leather jerkin. 

1319 Shaks. : Troil. and Cress., Act iii., Sc. 3. 

Opportunity. 

Our great social and political advantage is 
opportunity. George William Curtis: 

1320 Lotus-Eating. Lake George. 
What is opportunity to the man who can't use 

it ? An unf ecundated egg, which the waves of 
time wash away into nonentity. 

1321 George Eliot: Scenes from Clerical 

Life. Amos Barton. 
Opposition. 

There is nothing against which human ingenuity 
will not be able to find something to say. 

1322 Thomas Jefferson: Letter to Gideon 

Granger, 1801. 
Oppression. 

Oppression is but another name for irresponsible 
power, if history is to be trusted. 

1323 William Pinkney : Speech, Feb. 15, 1820. 

The Missouri Question. 



DICTIONARY OF PROSE QUOTATIONS. 185 

Orators, Oratory. 

There is no true orator who is not a hero. 

1324 Emerson: Essays. Oj Eloquence. 

The effect of oratory will always to a great 

extent depend upon the character of the orator. 

1325 Macau/lay: Miscellaneous Writings. 

William Pit I. 

The capital of the orator is in the bank of the 
highest sentimentalities and the purest enthusi- 
asms. Edward G. Parker: The Golden 

1326 Age of American Oratory* Ch. 1. 

Ordeal. 

The ordeal is a superstition of all nations and of 
all ages. God is summoned to bear miraculous 
witness in favor of the innocent to condemn the 
guilty. Milman: History of Latin 

1327 Christianity. Vol. L, Ch. 5. 

Order. 

Every man being at his ease, feels an interest in 
the preservation of order, and comes forth to 
preserve it at the first call of the magistrate. 

1328 Thomas Jefferson: Letter to M. Pidet. 

You must confine yourself within the modest 
limits of order. 

1329 Shaks. : Tic. Xigkt, Act i., Sc. 3. 

Organism. 

The essential thing in any organism in relation 
to its surroundings, the characteristic quality on 
which life depends, is adaptation to environment. 

1330 Henry Drummond: 77te New Evan- 

gelism. Survival of the Fittest. 



186 DICTIONARY OF PROSE QUOTATIONS. 

Organization. 

And here in America, I need not tell how many 
forms of organization and of refusal to organize, 
how many statements, platforms, movements, com- 
binations, head centres, middle centres, and centre 
centres would develop in three years. 

1331 Edward Everett Hale: Ten Times 
One is Ten. Old and New. Vol. i., Ch. 7. 

Originality. 

Originality is the one thing which unoriginal 
minds cannot feel the use of. 

1332 John Stuart Mill : On Liberty, Ch. 3. 

Grand, gloomy, and peculiar, he sat upon the 
throne a sceptred hermit, wrapped in the solitude 
of his own originality. Charles Phillips : 

1333 The Character of Napoleon. 

Orthodoxy. 

" Orthodoxy, my lord, 11 said Bishop YVarburton, 
in a whisper, »« orthodoxy is my doxy; heterodoxy 
is another man's doxy." 

1334 Joseph Priestley: Memoirs, Vol. i. 

Outcasts. 

Xext to the fugitives whom Moses led out of 
Egypt, the little ship-load of outcasts who landed 
at Plymouth two centuries and a half ao'o are 
destined to influence the future of the world. 

1335 James Russell Lowell : Among My 

Books. England Two Centuries Ago. 
Oyster. 

An oyster may be crossed in love. 
1336" SheV.idax: The Critic, Act iii., Sc. 1. 
He was a bold man that first eat an oyster. 
1337 Savift : Polite Conversation. Dialogue ii. 



DICTIONARY OF PROSE QUOTATIONS. 187 

P. 
Pain. 

Pain makes even the innocent man a liar. 

1338 Bacon : Ornamenta Rationalia. 

I do not agree that an age of pleasure is no com- 
pensation for a moment of pain. 

1339 Thomas Jefferson : 

Letter to John Adams, 181 G. 

Pain has its own noble joy, when it kindles a 
strong consciousness of life, before stagnant and 
torpid. 

1340 John Sterling : Essays and Tales. 

Thoughts and Images. 
Painting. 

The art of painting does not proceed so much 
by intelligence as by sight and feeling and inven- 
tion. 

1341 Hamerton : Thoughts About Art. 

XIV. The Artistic Spirit. 

Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting 
with the gift of speech. 

1342 Simonides: {Plutarch, de Gloria 

Atheniensium, iii., 346, F.). 
Parenthesis. 

What a parenthesis contains is grammatically 
capable of severance from the sentence in which 
it is found, but its contents have as full force in 
regard to their substance as if there were no use 
of parenthetical signs at all. 

1343 Gladstone: Later Gleanings. 

The Church under Henry VIII. 
Parents. 

There is no friendship, no love, like that of the 
parent for the child. Henry Ward Beecher : 

1344 Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit. 



188 DICTIONARY OF PROSE QUOTATIONS. 

In general those parents have the most rever- 
ence who most deserve it ; for he that lives well 
cannot be despised. 

134:5 Dr. Johnson: Rasselas, Ch. 26. 

Paris. 

Good Americans when they die go to Paris. 

1346 Thomas G. Appleton {The Autocrat 
of the Breakfast- Table, vi., 0. W. Holmes). 

Party. 

He serves his party best who serves the country 
best. Rutherford B. Hayes: 

1347 Inaugural Address, March 5, 1877. 
If I could not go to heaven but with a party, I 

would not go there at all. Thomas Jefferson : 

1348 Letter to Francis Hopkinson, 1789. 
Party is the madness of many for the gain of a 

few. 

1349 Pope : Tlioughls on Various Subjects. 

Passion. 

Passion is the avalanche of the human heart — a 
single breath can dissolve it from its repose. 

1350 Bulwer-Litton : Falkland, Bk. ii. 

Oh, it offends me to the sonl to hear a robus- 
tious periwig-pated fellow tear a passion to tatters, 
to very rags, to split the ears of the groundlings, 
who for the most part are capable of nothing but 
inexplicable dumb-shows and noise. 

1351 Shaks.: Hamlet, Act iii., Sc. 2. 

Past. 

You can never plan the future by the past. 

1352 Burke : Letter to a Member of the 

National Assembly, Vol. iv., p. 55. 



DICTIONARY OF PROSE QUOTATIONS. 189 

The past at least is secure. 

1353 Daniel Webster: United States 

Senate, Jan. 26, 1830. 
Patience. 

No man knows the lists of his own patience : 
nor can divine how able he shall be in his suffer- 
ings, till the storm come (the perfect virtue being 
tried in action) . 

1354 Bacon : Essays. On Death. 

Our patience will achieve more than our force. 

1355 Burke : Reflections on the Rev. in France. 

How far then, Catiline, will you abuse our 
patience ? 

1356 Cicero : In Calilinam, i., 1, 1. 

He that can have patience can have what he will. 

1357 Benjamin Franklin: Poor Richard's Al. 

One great secret of patience is — to forgive 
ourselves. This is much harder to do than to for- 
give others. Coventry Patmore : 

1358 Memoirs and Correspondence, Ch. 5. 

How poor are they that have not patience. 

1359 Shaks. : Othello, Act ii., Sc. 3. 

Patriotism. 

The patriot reveals the secret of his soul when 
he gladly dies for his country, and sacrifices his 
life upon the altar of his inspiration. 

1360 Timothy Titcomb (J. G. Holland) : 

Gold-Foil, I. 

Patriotism is the vital condition of national per- 
manence. 

1361 George William Curtis: Harper's 

Magazine, September, 1889. 



190 DICTIONARY OF PROSE QUOTATIONS. 

The man who loves his country on its own 
account, and not merely for its trappings of inter- 
est or power, can never be divorced from it, can 
never refuse to come forward when he finds that 
she is engaged in dangers which he has the means 
of warding off. Thomas Jefferson : 

1362 Letter to Elbridge Gerry, June, 1797 
Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel. 

1363 Dr. Johnson: BosivelVs Life of Johnson. 
II. 18. {George Birkbeck, Hill, Editor, 1887.) 

That man is little to be envied whose patriotism 
would not gain force upon the plain of Marathon. 
1361 Dr. Johnson: Journey to the Western 

Islands. Inch Kenneth. 

Governments and ruling classes try with all 
their strength to conserve that old public opinion 
of patriotism upon which their power rests, and to 
smother the expression of the new, which would 
destroy it. Tolstoi: Essays, Letters, 

1365 Miscellanies. Patriotism and Christianity. 

Let us extend our ideas over the whole of the 
vast field in which we are called to act. Let our 
object be, our country, our whole country, 
.\nd nothing but our country. And, by the 
blessing of God, may that country itself become a 
vast and splendid monument, not of oppression 
and terror, but of wisdom, of peace, and of liberty, 
upon which the world may gaze with admiration 
forever. 

1366 Daniel Webster: Speech, Charles- 

town, Mass., June 17, 1825. 
Peace. 

The Bible does not require peace at any price. 
It does not treat combativeness and destructiveness 



DICTIONARY OF PROSE QUOTATIONS. 191 

as vicious elements in human nature, to be cru- 
cified and put to death; indeed, it does not recog- 
nize any faculty in human nature as evil and 
vicious in itself and to be put to death. 

1367 Lyman Abbott: Problems of Life. 

The Pilgrim they laid in a large upper chamber, 
whose window opened toward the sun-rising; the 
name of the chamber was Peace, where he slept 
till break of day, and then he awoke and sang. 

1368 Bunyan : The Pilgrim^ Progress, Pt. i. 

Let us have peace. Grant : Accepting a 

1369 Nomination for the Presidency , 1868. 

I love peace, and am anxious that we should 
give the world still another useful lesson, by 
showing to them other modes of punishing injuries 
than by war, which is as much a punishment to 
the punisher as to the sufferer. 

1870 Thomas Jefferson : Letter to 

Tench Coxe, May, 1794. 

To be prepared for war is one of the most 
effectual means of preserving peace. 

1371 George Washington : Speech, 
Jan. 8, 1790. To both Houses of Congress. 

Peacemaker. 

Your if is the only peacemaker ; much virtue in 
If. 

1372 Shaks. : As You Like It, Act v., Sc. 4. 

Pearl. 

Rich honesty dwells like a miser, sir, in a poor 
house ; as your pearl in your foul oyster. 

1373 Shaks. : As You Like It, Act v., Sc. 4. 



192 DICTIONARY OF PROSE QUOTATIONS. 

Pen. 

The pen is the tongue of the mind. 

1374 Cervantes: Don Quixote, Pt. ii., 

Ch. 16. (Lockharfs Trans.) 
Penitence. 

Gloomy penitence is only madness turned upside 
down. Dr. Johnson : BosweWs Life of 

1375 Johnson. III. 27. (George B. Hill, Ed.) 

People. 

The animosities of sovereigns are temporary 
and may be allayed ; but those which seize the 
whole body of a people, and of a peoj}le, too, who 
dictate their own measures, produce calamities of 
long duration. Thomas Jefferson: 

1376 Letter to C. W. F. Dumas, 1786. 

Where there is no vision, the people perish. 

1377 Old Testament: Proverbs xxix. 18. 

Perception. 

It needs a man to perceive a man. 

1378 A. Bronson Alcott: Table Talk. 

VII. Creeds. Scripture. 
Perfection. 

As there is in nature, so there is in art, a point 
of perfection. He who discovers it, and is touched 
with it, has a good taste : he who is not sensible 
of it, but loves what is below or above that point, 
understands neither art nor nature. 

1379 La Bruyere : Characters. Of Works 

of Genius. (Bowe, Translator.) 
Persecution. 

The history of persecution is a history of 
endeavors to cheat nature, to make water run up 
hill, to twist a rope of sand. It makes no differ- 



DICTIONARY OF PROSE QUOTATIONS. 193 

ence whether the actors be many or one, a tyrant 
or a mob. 

1380 Emerson: Essays. Compensation. 

Never was a persecution of innocent people 
which has not ended in the persecutors receiving 
the principle of the persecuted ; as it was with 
the warrior Simeon, who exterminated the Pauli- 
cians and then adopted their creed. 

1381 Tolstoi : Essays, Letters, Miscellanies. 

Persecutions of Christians in Russia. 

It would be impossible to enumerate in what 
various shapes persecution has appeared. It is 
a many-headed monster, insatiable as hell, cruel 
as the grave ; and, what is worse, it generally 
appears under the cloak of religion. 

1382 George AVhitefield : Sermon. 

Persecution Every Christianas Lot. 

Perseverance. 

Great works are performed not by strength but 
by perseverance. 

1383 Dr. Johnson: Basselas, Ch. 13. 

To persevere in one's duty and be silent is the 
best answer to calumny. 

1384 George Washington : Moral Maxims. 

Personality. 

The greatest and most vital power in influen- 
cing life is personality. It is greater than law, 
instruction, or example. 

1385 Lyman Abbott : Problems of Life. 

Pessimism. 

Every now and then some chronic pessimist 
obtrudes himself on the public with his harsh, 



194 DICTIONARY OF PROSE QUOTATIONS. 

strident philosophy of a world made for misery 
and becoming necessarily more wicked and miser- 
able as it grows older. George C. Lorimer: 

1386 Christianity in the Nineteenth Century. 

I pity the man who can travel from Dan to 
Beersheba, and cry, 'Tis all barren. 

1387 Laurence Sterne : 

Sentimental Journal. In the Street. Calais. 

Philanthropy. 

There are two classes of philanthropists ; one 
alleviates and the other cures. There is one class 
of philanthropists that undertakes when a man 
commits an evil to help him out of it. There is 
another class that endeavors to abolish the tempta- 
tion. The first is sentiment, the last is Chris- 
tianity. 

1388 Wendell Phillips : Speeches. Lectures, 

and Letters. Christianity a Battle. 

Philosophers. 

Be a philosopher ; but, amidst all your philos- 
ophy, be still a man. 

1389 Hume : Essays. XXXLX. An Inquiry 
Concerning Human Understanding . Sec. 1. 

A true philosopher is beyond the reach of for- 
tune. 

1390 Landor: Imaginary Conversations. 

Epictetus and Seneca. 

Philosophy. 

Before philosophy can teach by experience, the 
philosophy has to be in readiness, the experience 
must be gathered and intelligibly recorded, 

1391 C arlyle : Essays . On History . 
{Erasers Magazine, Yol. ii., No. x., 183CK) 



DICTIONARY OF PROSE QUOTATIONS. 195 

Philosophy comprises the understanding of 
virtue, of duty, and of right living. 

1392 Cicero : In Pisonem, xxix., 71. 
Philosophy goes no further than probabilities, 

and in every assertion keeps a doubt in reserve. 

1393 Froude : Short Studies on Great 

Subjects. Calvinism. 

It goes much against my stomach. Hast any 
philosophy in thee, shepherd ? 

1394 Shaks. : As You Like It, Act iii., Sc. 2. 

Phraseology. 

I fear you underrate the evil effects that must 
result from an eccentric phraseology. Uncom- 
mon things must be said in common words, if you 
would have them to be received in less than a 
century. Coventry Patmore : 

1395 Letter to H. S. Sutton, March 25, 1847. 

Phrases. 

" Convey," the wise it call. " Steal ! " foh ! a 
hco for the phrase ! 

1396 Shaks. : Mer. W. of W., Act L, Sc. 3. 

Physicians. 

God heals, the doctor takes the fee. 

1397 Benjamin Franklin : Poor Bichard's Al. 
He [the physician] is the flower (such as it is) 

of our civilization ; and when that stage of man is 
done with, and only remembered to be marvelled 
at in history, he Avill be thought to have shared as 
little as any in the defects of the period, and most 
notably exhibited the virtues of the race. 

1398 Robert Louis Stevenson : 

Dedication to '« Underwoods." 



196 DICTIONARY OF PROSE QUOTATIONS. 

Nothing is more estimable than a physician 
who, having studied nature from his vouth. 
knows the properties of the human body, the dis- 
eases which assail it, the remedies which will 
benefit it, exercises his art with caution, and pays 
equal attention to the rich and the poor. 

1399 Voltaire : A Philosophical Dictionary . 

Physicians. 
Pi. 

But to have the sweet babe of my brain served 
in pi ! Lowell : 

1400 Fable for Critics. Preface. 

Pictures. 

The beauty of the picture is an abiding concrete 
of the painter s vision. 

1401 Hartley Coleridge: 

Dramatic Works of Massinger and Ford. 

No picture can be good which deceives by its 
imitation, for the very reason that nothing can be 
beautiful which is not true. Ruskin : 

1402 Modem Painters, Pt i., Sec. i., Ch. 5, § 6. 

Piety. 

One's piety is best displayed in his pursuits. 

1403 A. Bronson Alcott: Creeds. Piety. 
Piety is not a religion, although it is the soul of 

all religions. Jol'bert : 

1404 Pensees. No. 23. (Attwell, Translator.) 



Pilgrimage. 

Pilgrimage, like many other acts of piety, may 
be reasonable or superstitious, according to the 
principles upon which it is performed. Long 
journeys in search of truth are not commanded. 

1405 Dr. Johnsox: Basselas, Ch. 11. 



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Pitch. 

He that toucheth pitch shall be defiled there- 
with. 

1406 Old Testament : E 'celestas licus xiii. 1. 

Pitcher. 

Whether the pitcher strike the stone, or the 
stone the pitcher, the pitcher suffers. 

1407 Cervantes : Don Quixote 

(Burke" s Trans.), p. 21. 

Pity. 

But yet the pity of it, Iago ! O Iago, the pity of 
it, Iago ! 

1408 Shaks. : Othello, Act iv., Sc. 1. 

People seem to think themselves in some ways 
superior to heaven itself, when they complain of 
the sorrow and want round about them. And yet 
it is not the devil for certain who puts pity into 
their hearts. 

1409 Anne Isabella Thackeray 
(Mrs. Ritchie) : The Village on the Cliff, Ch. 7. 

Places. 

Places do not ennoble men, but men make places 
illustrious. Agesilaus (Plutarch, 

1410 Aj)ophthegmata Laconica). 

Plagiarism. 

It has come to be practically a sort of rule in 
literature, that a man, having once shown himself 
capable of original writing, is entitled thenceforth 
to steal from the writings of others at discretion. 
Thought is the property of him who can entertain 
it, and of him who can adequately place it. A 
certain awkwardness marks the use of borrowed 



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thoughts ; but as soon as we have learned what to 
do with them, they become our own. 

1411 Emerson: Representative Men. 

Shakespeare. 
All the makers of dictionaries, all compilers 
who do nothing else than repeat backwards and 
forwards the opinions, the errors, the impostures, 
and the truths already printed, we may term 
plagiarists ; but honest plagiarists, who arrogate 
not the merit of invention. Voltaire : 

1412 A Philosophical Dictio nary . Plagiarism . 

Play. 

Play maj' not have so high a place in the divine 
economy, but it has as legitimate a place as prayer. 

1413 " J. G. Holland : Plain Talks on 

Familiar Subjects. III. Work and Play. 

Pleasure. 

Pleasure lies rather in tranquillity than in activ- 
ity. Aristotle : Ethica Nicomachea, 

1414 vii., 14, 8. 
Pleasure may perfect us as- truly as prayer. 

1415 William Ellery Chanxixg : 

Note-Book. Joy, Hap>p>iness. 
Fly pleasures and they will follow you. 

1416 Benjamin Franklin : 

Poor BicharoVs Al. 

Do not bite at the bait of pleasure till you know 
there is no hook beneath it. 

1417 Thomas Jefferson : 
Letter to Mrs. Cosicay, 1786. 

Pleasures never can be so multiplied or con- 
tinued as not to leave much of life unemployed. 

1418 Dr. Johnson : Basselas, Ch. 4. 



DICTIONARY OF PROSE QUOTATIONS. 199 

The liberty of using harmless pleasure will not 
be disputed; but it is still to be examined what 
pleasures are harmless. 

1419 Dr. Johnson: Rasselas, Ch. 47. 

The Puritans hated bear-baiting, not because it 
gave pain to the bear, but because it gave pleas- 
ure to the spectators. Mac aula y : 

1420 History of England, Vol. i., Ch. 3. 

Pledge. 

A pledge is the daughter of injury, the daughter 
of loss. Epicharmus : 

1421 Fabulce Incertce, Fragment 26. 

Plot, 

Who cannot be crushed by a plot. 

1422 Shaks. : All's Well, Act iv., Sc. 3. 

Poetry. 

Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive, 
and widely effective mode of saying things, and 
hence its importance. Matthew Arnold : 

1423 Essays in Criticism. Heinrich Heine. 

Poetry is that art which selects and arranges the 
symbols of thought in such a manner as to excite 
it the most powerfully and delightfully. 

1424 Bryant: Prose Writings. Lectures on 

Poetry. On the Nature of Poetry. 

Poetry, the eldest sister of all arts, and parent 
of most. Congreve: The Way of the World. 

1425 Dedication. 
Only that is poetry which cleanses and mans me. 

1426 Emerson: Letters and Social Aims. 

Inspiration. 



200 DICTIONARY OF PROSE QUOTATIONS. 

Lyrical poetry is much the same in every age, 
as the songs of the nightingales in every spring- 
time. Heine : Wit, Wisdom, and Pathos. 

1427 The Romantic School. 

A poem is the very image of life expressed in 
its eternal truth. 

1428 Shelley: A Defence of Poetry . 

Poets. 

It is a man^s sincerity and depth of vision that 
make him a poet. Carlyle : 

1429 Heroes and Hero Worship. 

No doubt it is primarily by his poetic qualities 
that a poet must be judged, for it is by these, if by 
anything, that he is to maintain his place in litera- 
ture. And he must be judged by them absolutely, 
with reference, that is, to the highest standard, 
and not relatively to the fashions and opportunities 
of the age in which he lived. Lowell : 

1430 Among My Books. Dante. 

A poet soaring in the high region of his fancies, 
with his garland and singing robes about him. 

1431 Milton : The Reason of Church 
Government, Bk. ii. Introduction. 

The poet who does not revere his art, and be- 
lieve in its sovereignty, is not born to wear the 
purple. Stedman: Poets of America, Ch. 9. 

1432 James Russell Lowell. 

Poison. 

Poison itself is a remedy in some diseases, and 
there is nothing so evil but what may be converted 
to purposes of good. Kenelm Dig by : 

1433 The Broad Stone of Honour. 



DICTIONARY OF PROSE QUOTATIONS. 201 

Policy. 

Peace and friendship with all mankind is our 
wisest policy, and I wish Ave may be permitted to 
pursue it. Thomas Jefferson : 

1434 Letter to C. W. F. Dumas, 1786. 

Politeness. 

Politeness has been well denned as benevolence 
in small things. Macaulay : Essays. 

1435 Croker's Ed. ofBoswelVs Life of Johnson. 

Politeness is the art of choosing among one's 
real thoughts. Abel Stevens : 

1436 Life of Mme. de Stael, Ch. 4. 

Politicians. 

The conduct of a wise politician is ever suited 
to the present posture of affairs. Often by fore- 
going a part he saves the whole, and by yielding 
in a small matter secures a greater. 

1437 Plutarch : Lives. Poplicola and Solon. 

And he gave it for his opinion, that whoever 
could make two ears of corn, or two blades of 
grass, to grow upon a spot of ground where only 
one grew before, would deserve better of man- 
kind, and do more essential service to his coun- 
try, than the whole race of politicians put 
together. Sw^ift : Gulliver's Travels. 

1438 Voyage to Brobdingnag, Ch. 7. 

Political Economy. 

Political economy deals with only one side of 
human experience, — the laws of the production 
and distribution of w r ealth Political econ- 
omy must therefore follow and not lead Christian- 
it}', and will conform itself to the conclusions at 



202 DICTIONARY OF PROSE QUOTATIONS. 

which society arrives in its progress toward a 
permanent moral order. 

1439 Abram S. Hewitt : The Mutual 
Relations of Capital and Labor. 1878. 

Politics. 

Vain hope, to make people happy by politics ! 

1440 Carlyle : Thomas Carlyle, First 
Forty Years, by Fronde. Journal, Oct., 1831. 

Politics is a deleterious profession, like some 
poisonous handicrafts. 

1441 Emerson: Conduct of Life. Power. 
Politics, like religion, holds up the torches of 

martyrdom to the reformers of error. 

1442 Thomas Jefferson: 
Letter to Mr. Ogilvie, 1811. 

Politics is the science of exigencies. 

1443 Theodore Parker : Ten Sermons of 

Religion. Of Truth and the Intellect. 

Poor Relations. 

It is a melancholy truth that even great men 
have their poor relations. Indeed, great men have 
often more than their fair share of poor relations ; 
inasmuch as very red blood of the superior qual- 
ity, like inferior blood unlawfully shed, will cry 
aloud, and will be heard. 

1444 Dickens: Bleak House, Ch. 28. 

Popularity. 

True popularity takes deep root and spreads 
itself wide, but the false falls away like blos- 
soms ; for nothing that is false can be lasting. 

1445 Cicero: Offices, Bk. ii., Ch. 12. 

(Edmonds, Translator.) 



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I don't eare a fig for popularity for myself : but, 
if I believe that my writings contain that which is 
capable of doing their readers good, I cannot but 
grieve if it has been my own fault — as in the 
present instance it has — that I have not had more 
readers. Coventry Patmore : 

1446 Letter to II. S. Sutton, April 14, 1847. 

Portraits. 

To sit for one's portrait is like being present at 
one's own creation. Alexander Smith : 

14-i7 Dreamthorp. On Vagabonds. 

Possession. 

Possession is eleven points in the law. 
1448 Culley Cibber: Woman's Wit. Act i. 

The thing possessed is not the thing it seems. 
14:49 Samuel Daniel: Civil War, Bk. ii.,xiii. 
An ill-favored thing, sir. but mine own. 

1450 Shaks. : As You Like It, Act v., Sc. 4:. 

Possibilities. 

There is always the possibility of beanty where 
there is an unsealed human eye ; of music, where 
there is an unstopped human ear : and of inspira- 
tion, where there is a receptive human spirit, a spirit 
standing before. 

1451 Charles II. Paekeetest : Sermons. 
II. Human Spirit and Divine Inspiration. 

Posterity. 

Posterity ! you will never know how much it 
cost the present generation to preserve your free- 
dom ! I hope you will make a good use of it. If 
you do not, I shall repent in Heaven that I ever 
took half the pains to preserve it. 

1452 John Adam- : / • ft rs Addressi I to 

His Wife, Letter exi. 



204 DICTIONARY OF PROSE QUOTATIONS. 

Posterity, that high court of appeal which is 
never tired of eulogizing its own justice and dis- 
cernment. 

1453 Macaulay : Essay on Machiavelli. 

Poverty. 

Poverty often deprives a man of all spirit and 
virtue. 

1454 Benjamin Franklin : Poor Packard's Al. 
As society advances, the standard of poverty 

rises. 

1455 Theodore Parker : Critical and 
Miscellaneous Writings. Thoughts on Labor. 

Poverty is a bully if you are afraid of her, or 
truckle to her. Poverty is good-natured enough 
if you meet her like a man. 

1456 Thackeray: Philip, Ch. 19. 

Power. 

Power is so far from being desirable in itself, 
that it sometimes ought to be refused, and some- 
times to be resigned. Cicero : 

1457 Offices, Bk. i., Ch. 20. {Edmonds, Trans.) 

From the summit of power men no longer turn 
their eyes upward, but begin to look about them. 

1458 Lowell : Among My Books. 

Neiv England Two Centuries Ago. 

Power is always right, weakness always wrong. 
Power is always insolent and despotic. 

1459 Xoah Webster : Essays. The Times. 

{American Men of Letters.) 
Praise. 

Certainly, moderate praise, used with oppor- 
tunity, and not vulgar, is that which doeth the 



DICTIONARY OF PROSE QUOTATIONS. 205 

good. Solomon saith, " He that praiseth his friend 
aloud, rising early, it shall be no better to him 
than a curse.' ' 

1460 Bacon: Essays. Of Praise. 

Praise is the reflection of virtue ; but it is glass, 
or body, which giveth the reflection. 

1461 Bacon: Essays. Of Praise. 

A man who does not love praise is not a full 
man. Henry Ward Beecher: 

1462 Proverbs from Plymouth Putyil. 

Praise from another is far better than self-praise. 

1463 Democritus : Ethica, Fragment 117 (232). 

I do not think any one enjoyed praise more than 
he [Oliver Wendell Holmes] . Of course he would 
not provoke it, but if it came of itself, he would 
not deny himself the pleasure, as long as a relish 
of it remained. Howells : 

1464 Literary Friends and Acquaintance. 

Some deserve praise for what they have done, 
and others for what they would have done. 

1465 La Bruyere : Characters. 
Of Personal Merit. (Bowe, Translator.) 

Prayer. 

No man ever prayed heartily without learning 
something. 

1466 Emerson: Miscellanies. Nature, Ch. 8. 

Prayer is a strong wall and fortress of the 
church ; it is a goodly Christian's weapon, which 
no man knows or finds but only he who has the 
spirit of grace and of prayer. 

1467 Martin Luther : Table Talk. 
Of Prayer. JSTo. 329. (Hazlitt, Translator.) 



206 DICTIONARY OF PROSE QUOTATIONS. 

Let me say amen betimes, lest the devil cross 
my prayers. 

1468 Shaks. : M. of Venice, Act iii., Sc. 1. 

Preaching. 

The chief end of preaching is, after all, inspira- 
tion, and the man who has been set on fire is the 
vindication of the pulpit. The chief disaster of 
jDreaching is detachment and indifference. 

1469 Dr. J. Watson (" Ian Maclaren ") : 

Church Folks, Ch. 1. 
Precedent. 

A precedent embalms a principle. 

1470 Disraeli (Earl of Beaconsfield) : 

Speech, Feb. 22, 1848. 
For what oppression may not a precedent be 
found in this world of the bellam omnium in 
omnia ? Thomas Jefferson : 

1471 Notes on Virginia, 1782. 

Precept. 

For precept must be upon precept, precept ujdoii 
precept ; line upon line, line upon line ; here a 
little, and there a little. 

1472 Old Testament: Isaiah xxviii. 10. 

Predecessors. 

Use the memory of thy predecessor fairly and 
tenderly ; for if thou dost not, it is a debt will 
surely be paid when thou art gone. 

1473 Bacon: Essays. Of Boldness. 

Prejudice. 

People have prejudices against a nation in which 
they have no acquaintances. Hamerton: 

1474 Modem Frenchmen. Henri Ferreyve. 



DICTIONARY OF PROSE QUOTATIONS. 207 

Prejudice is the child of ignorance. 

1475 Hazlitt : Sketches and Essays. 

Press. 

Our liberty depends on the freedom of the press, 
and that cannot be limited without being lost. 

1476 Thos. Jefferson: To Dr. J. Gurrie, 1786. 

Pride. 

Pride is a fault that great men blush not to own ; 
it is the ennobled offspring of self-love. 

1477 Joanna Baillie : The Second Marriage, 

Act ii., Sc. 4. 

Pride is as loud a beggar as want, and a great 
deal more saucy. 

1478 Benjamin Franklin : Poor Richard's Al. 

He that is proud eats up himself : pride is his 
own glass, his own trumpet, his own chronicle ; 
and whatever praises itself but in the deed, 
devours the deed in the praise. 

1479 Shaks. : Troil. and Cress., Act ii., Sc. 3. 

Principle. 

A great character, founded on the living rock of 
principle, is, in fact, not a solitary phenomenon, 
to be at once perceived, limited, and described. 
It is a dispensation of Providence, designed to 
have, not merely an immediate, but a continuous, 
progressive, and never-ending agency. 

1480 Edward Everett : Orations and 
Speeches. Oration, Beverly, July 4, 1835. 

Printer. 

Come, don't be faint-hearted, there has many a 
printer been raised to the pillory from as slender 
be<nnnim>;s. 

1481 Foote : Devil upon Tiro Sticks, ii. 



208 DICTIONARY OF PROSE QUOTATIONS. 

I am a printer, and a printer of news ; and I do 
hearken after them, wherever they be at any 
rates ; I'll give anything for a good copy now, be 
it true or false, so it be news. 

1482 Ben Jonson : News from the Neiv World. 

Printing. 

Thou hast most traitorously corrupted the youth 
of the realm in erecting- a grammar school : and 
whereas, before, our forefathers had no other 
books but the score and the tall} 7 , thou hast caused 
printing to be used ; and, contrary to the King, his 
crown and dignity, thou hast built a paper-mill. 

1483 Shaks. : 2 Henry VI. , Act iv., Sc. 7. 

Privilege. 

What men prize most is a privilege, even if it 
be that of chief mourner at a funeral. 

1484 Lowell : Democracy and Other 
Addresses. Address, Birmingham, Eng ., 1884. 

Probabilities. 

We should discredit even probabilities from our 
enemies, and believe even improbabilities from 
our friends. Thales : (Plutarch, Septem 

1485 Sapientum Symposium, xvii., 160 i?.). 

Procrastination. 

Never leave that till to-morrow which you can 
do to-day. 

1486 Benjamin Franklin : Poor Richard's Al. 

Production. 

In general, it is a truth that if every nation will 
employ itself in what it is fittest to produce, a 
greater quantity will be raised of the things con- 



DICTIONARY OF PROSE QUOTATIONS. 209 

tributing to human happiness, than if every nation 
attempts to raise everything it wants within itself. 

1487 Thomas Jefferson : Letter to 

M. Lasteyrie, 1808. 
Profanity. 

Not to speak it profanely. . 

1488 Shaks. : Hamlet, Act iii., Sc. 2. 

" Our armies swore terribly in Flanders, 1 ' cried 
my Uncle Toby, " but nothing to this." 

1489 Laurence Sterne : Tristram Shandy, 

Vol. iii., Ch. 11. (Grig. Ed.) 
Progress. 

Cost is the father and compensation is the 
mother of progress. J. G. Holland : 

1490 Plain Talks on Familiar Subjects. 

Every step of progress the world has made has 
been from scaffold to scaffold, and from stake to 
stake. It would hardly be exaggeration to say. 
that all the great truths relating to society and 
government have been first heard in the solemn 
protests of martyred patriotism, or the loud cries 
of crushed and starving labor. 

1491 Wendell Phillips : Speeches, 
Lectures, and Letters. Woman's Bights. 

Promises. 

Not to perform our promise, is a folly, a dis- 
honor, and a crime. Lord Chesterfield: 

1492 Advice to His Son. 

It is well to hold one's country to her promises, 
and if there are any who think she is forgetting 
them it is their duty to say so, even to the point of 
bitter accusation. Ho wells: Literary Friends 

1493 and Acquaintance. Studies of Lowell. 



210 DICTIONARY OF PROSE QUOTATIONS. 

Never promise more than you can perform. 
1491 Publius Syrus : Maxim 528. 

He was ever precise in promise-keeping. 

1495 Shaks. : M.for M., Act L, Sc. 2. 

Promptness. 

Know the true value of time ; snatch, seize, and 
enjoy every moment of it. No idleness, no lazi- 
ness, no procrastination : never put off till to- 
morrow what you can do to-day. 

1496 Lord Chesterfield : Letter to His Son, 

Dec. 26, 1749. 
Property. 

A right to property is founded in our natural 
wants, in the means with which we are endowed 
to satisfy these wants, and the right to what we 
acquire by those means without violating the 
similar rights of other sensible beings. 

1497 Thomas Jefferson : 
Letter to Bupont de Nemours, 1816. 

Prose. 

The walk of prose is a walk of business along a 
roacl with an end to reach, and without leisure to 
do more than take a glance at the prospect. 

1498 J. C. and A. W. Hare : Guesses at Truth. 

Proselytism. 

When the proselytizer begins his operations, his 
first act is to plant his battering-ram, stronger or 
weaker as the case may be, against the fabric of a 
formed belief. It may be a belief well formed or 
ill ; but it is all which the person attacked has to 
depend upon, and where it is sincere and warm, 
even if unenlightened, the proselytizer, properly so 
called, seems to have a sjjecial zest in the attack. 

1499 Gladstone: Later Gleanings. 



DICTIONARY OF PROSE QUOTATIONS. 211 

Prosperity. 

Prosperity is the blessing of the Old Testament ; 
adversity is the blessing of the New. 

1500 Bacon: Essays. Of Adversity. 

I wish you all sorts of prosperity with a little 
more taste. Le Sage: Gil Bias, Bk. vii., 

1501 Ch. 4. {Smollett, Translator.) 

Protestantism. 

The religion most prevalent in our northern 
colonies is a refinement on the principles of resis- 
tance : it is the dissidence of dissent, and the pro- 
testantism of the Protestant religion. 

1502 Burke : Speech on the Conciliation 

of America, Vol. ii., p. 123. 

Protestations. 

Protestations with men are like tears with 
women, forgot ere the cheek be dry. 

1503 Thomas Middleton : 

The Family of Love, Act i., Sc. 1. 

Proverbs. 

I do not say a proverb is amiss when aptly and 
seasonably applied ; but to be forever discharging 
them, right or wrong, hit or miss, renders conver- 
sation insipid and vulgar. Cervantes : 

1504 Bon Quixote, Pt. ii., Ch. 43. 

Proverbs, like the sacred books of each nation, 
are the sanctuary of the Intuitions. 

1505 Emerson: Essays. Compensation. 

Providence. 

God^ providence is on the side of clear heads. 

1506 Henry Ward Beecher : 

Broverbs from Plymouth Pulpit. 



212 DICTIONARY OF PROSE QUOTATIONS. 

Providence certainly does not favor individuals, 
but the deep wisdom of its counsels extends to the 
instruction and ennoblement of all. 

1507 WlLHELM VON HUMBOLDT : 

Letters to a Female Friend, Vol. L, No. 67. 

Prudence. 

There must be in prudence also some master 
virtue. Aristotle: Ethics, Bk. vi., 

1508 Ch. 7. ( Browne, Trans.) 

Prudence is the virtue of the senses. It is the 
science of appearances. It is the utmost action of 
the inward life. 

1509 Emerson: Essays. Prudence. 

Prudence, like experience, must be paid for. 

1510 Sheridan: The School for Scandal, 

Act iv., Sc. 3. 

Public Opinion. 

Nothing is more unjust or capricious than public 
opinion. Hazlitt : 

1511 Characteristics. No. 81. 

Pulpits. 

Our idea of a pulpit is, that wherever a moral 
purpose dictates earnest words to make our neigh- 
bor a better man and better citizen, to clear the 
clogged channels of life, to lift it to a higher level, 
or form it on a better model, there is a pulpit. 

1512 AVendell Phillips: 
Speeches, Lectures, and Letters. The Pulpit. 

Punctuality. 

Punctuality is the politeness of kings. 

1513 Louis X YIIT. : 

Best known of his Sayings. 



DICTIONARY OF PROSE QUOTATIONS. 213 

Punishment. 

The only punishment which ever crushes a 
cause is that which its leader necessarily suffers 
in consequence of the new order of things made 
necessary to prevent the recurrence of their sin. 

1514 Wendell Phillips : Speeches, 
Lectures, and Letters. Abraham Lincoln. 

Puns. 

1 have mentioned puns. They are, I believe, 
what I have denominated them — the wit of 
words. They are exactly the same to words 
which wit is to ideas, and consist in the sudden 
discovery of relations in language. 

1515 Sydney Smith: Lecture. 
The Conduct of the Understanding . 

Puritanism. 

Puritanism meant something when Captain 
Hodgson, riding out to battle through the morn- 
ing mist, turns over the command of his troop to 
a lieutenant, and stays to hear the prayer of a cor- 
net, there was " so much of God in it. 1 ' 

1516 Lowell: Among My Books. 
New England Two Centuries Ago. 

The Puritan was not a man of speculation. He 
originated nothing. His principles are to be 
found broadcast in the centuries behind him. 
His speculations were all old. You might find them 
in the lectures of Abelard ; you meet witli 
them in the radicalism of Wat T}ler; you find 
them all over the continent of Europe. The dis- 
tinction between his case and that of others was 
simply that he practised what he believed. 

1517 Wendell Phillips : Speeches, 
Lectures, and Letters. The Puritan Principle. 



214 DICTIONARY OF PROSE QUOTATIONS. 

Purity. 

Cleanse the fountain if you would purify the 

streams. A. Bronson Alcott : 

1518 Table Talk. V. Habits. Chastity. 

Purity of mind and conduct is the first glory of 
a woman. 

1519 Mme. de Stael: Germany, Pt. iii., 
Ch . 19 . (Wight's revision of Murray's ed . ) 

Purpose. 

There is no action so slight, nor so mean, but it 
may be done to a great purpose, and ennobled 
therefore ; nor is any purpose so great but that 
slight actions may help it, and may be so done as 
to help it much, most especially that chief of all 
£>urposes, the pleasing of God. 

1520 Ruskin : The Seven Lamps of 

Architecture. Introductory . 

Pyramids. 

The Pyramids themselves, doting with age, 
have forgotten the names of their founders. 

1521 Thomas Fuller: The Holy and 
Profane State. The Holy State. Of To?nbs. 



Q. 

Quality. 

Things that have a common quality ever quickly 
seek their kind. 

1522 Marcus Aurelius: Meditations, ix. 9. 

Quarrels. 

There are quarrels in which even Satan bring- 
ing help, were not unwelcome. 

1523 Carlyle: French Rev., Bk. iii., Ch. 5. 



DICTIONARY OF PROSE QUOTATIONS. 215 

An association of men who will not quarrel 
with one another is a thing which never yet ex- 
isted, from the greatest confederacy of nations 
down to a town meeting or a vestr} T . 

1524 Thomas Jefferson : 
Letter to John Taylor, 1798. 

Thon ! why, thou wilt quarrel with a man that 
hath a hair more, or a hair less, in his beard than 
thou hast. Thou wilt quarrel with a man for 
cracking nuts, having no other reason but 
because thou hast hazel eyes. 

1525 Shaks. : Rom. and Jul., Act iii., Sc. 1. 

Question. 

A sudden, bold, and unexpected question doth 
many times surprise a man, and lay him open. 

1526 Bacon: Essays. Of Cunning. 

Protagoras asserted that there were two sides to 
every question, exactly opposite to each other. 

1527 Diogenes Laertius: Protagoras, iii. 

Quotations. 

One must be a wise reader to quote wisely and 
well. 

1528 A. Bronson Alcott : Table Talk. 

I. Learning, Quotation. 

The art of quotation requires more delicacy in 
the practice than those conceive who can see noth- 
ing more in a quotation than an extract. 

1529 Isaac Disraeli: 
Curiosities of Literature. Quotation, 

A great man quotes bravely, and will not draw 
on his invention when his memory serves him with 
a word as good. 

1530 Emerson: Letters and Social Aims. 



216 DICTIONARY OF PROSE QUOTATIONS. 

Every book is a quotation, and every house is a 
quotation out of all forests and mines and stone- 
quarries, and every man is a quotation from all 
his ancestors. 

1531 Emerson: Representative, Men. Plato. 

Give the author his due, and gain myself praise 
by reading him. 

1532 John Selden: 
Table Talk. Books. Authors. 

They have been at a great feast of languages 
and stolen the scraps. 

1533 Shaks. : Love's L. Lost, Act v., Sc. 1. 

Quoter. 

Next to the originator of a good sentence is the 
first quoter of it. 

1534 Emerson : Tjetiers and Social Aims. 

Quotation and Originality. 

I am but a gatherer and disposer of other men's 
stuff. Sir Henry Wotton: 

1535 Elements of Architecture. Preface. 



Rage. 

Not die here in a rage, like a poisoned rat in a 
hole. Swift : 

1536 Letter to Bolingbroke, March 21, 1729. 

Rags. 

Rags, which are the reproach of poverty, are 
the beggar's robe, and graceful insignia of his 



DICTIOXARY OF PROSE QUOTATIONS. 217 

profession, his tenure, his full dress, the suit in 
which he is expected to show himself in public. 

1537 Charles Lamb: Essays of Elia. 

On the Decay of Beggars. 

Rain. 

Rain ! whose soft architectural hands have 
power to cut stones, and chisel to shapes of gran- 
deur the very mountains, as no artist could eA'er do. 

1538 Henry Ward Beecher: 

Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit. Nature. 

Rank. 

Rank is a great beautifier. Bulwer-Lyttox : 

1539 The Lady of Lyons, Act ii., Sc. 1. 

Ramparts. 

The ramparts of our cities should be built not of 
stone and timber, but of the brave hearts of our 
citizens. 

1540 Agesilaus : (Plutarch, Apophthegmata 

Laconica, Agesilai, 30. 210, E.). 

Reading. 

It is not the reading of many books which is 
necessary to make a man wise or good, but the 
well-reading of a few, could he be sure to have 
the best. And it is not possible to read over 
many on the same subject in great deal of loss of 
precious time. Richard Baxter : 

1541 Christian Directory, Pt. ii., Ch. 16. 

In science, read by preference the newest 
works ; in literature, the oldest. The classic 
literature is always modern. 

1542 Bulwer-Lyttox. Caxtoniana. 

Hints on Mental Culture. 



218 DICTIONARY OF PROSE QUOTATIONS. 

If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we 
should ask him what books he read. 

1543 Emerson: Letters and Social Aims . 

Quotation and Originality . 

All my life, my reading, with the exception of 
novels for recreation, has been limited almost 
wholly to the few great books from which the 
world derives all its knowledge. 

1544 Coventry Patmore : 
(Memoirs and Correspondence, Ch. 7) 

No man can read with profit that which he can- 
not learn to read with pleasure. 

1545 Noah Porter: Books and Reading, Ch. 1. 

No book is worth anything which is not worth 
much ; nor is it serviceable until it has been read 
and re-read, and loved and loved again, and marked, 
so that you can refer to the passages you want in 
it, as a soldier can seize the weapon he needs in an 
armory. Ruskin : Sesame and Lilies. 

1546 Of Kings' 1 Treasuries. 

He hath never fed of the dainties that are bred in 
a book ; he hath not eat paper, as it were ; he hath 
not drunk ink : his intellect is not replenished ; he 
is only an animal, only sensible in the duller parts. 

1547 Shaks. : Love's L. Lost, Act iv., Sc. 2. 

Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the 
body. 

1548 Steele: The Tatler. No. 147. 

Reason. 

If you will not hear Reason, she will surely rap 
your knuckles. Benjamin Franklin : 

1549 Poor Richard's Almanac, 



DICTIONARY OF PROSE QUOTATIONS. 219 

By reason only can we attain to a correct knowl- 
edge of the world and a solution of its great prob- 
lems. Reason is man's highest gift, the only 
prerogative that essentially distinguishes him from 
the lower animals. Xevertheless, it has only 
reached this high position by the progress of cul- 
ture and education, by the development of knowl- 
edge. Ernest Haeckel : The Riddle of the 

1550 Universe. The Nature of the Problem. 

Man once surrendering his reason, has no re- 
maining guard against absurdities the most mon- 
strous, and like a ship without rudder, is the 
sport of every wind. Thomas Jefferson : 

1551 Letter to James Smith, 1822. 

The philosophy of reasoning, to be complete, 
ought to comprise the theory of bad as well as of 
o-ood reasoning-. John St cart Mill : 

1552 System of Logic. On Fallacies, Bk. v. 

Give you a reason on compulsion ! if reasons 
were as plenty as blackberries I would give no 
man a reason upon compulsion, I. 

1553 Shaks. : 1 Henry TV., Act ii., Sc. 1. 

Man has been given by God one single instru- 
ment to attain knowledge of self and of one's re- 
lation to the universe : there is no other, and that 
one is reason. Tolstoi: Essays, Letters, 

1551 Miscellanies. Reason and Religion. 

Reflection. 

The solitary side of our nature demands leisure 
for reflection upon subjects on which the dash and 
whirl of daily business, so Long as its clouds rise 
thick about us, forbid the intellect to fasten itself. 

1555 Froude: Sea Studies. 



220 DICTIONARY OF PROSE QUOTATIONS. 



Reform. 

Things even salutary should not be crammed 
down the throats of dissenting brethren, especially 
when they may be put into a form to be willingly 
swallowed. Thomas Jefferson : 

1556 Letter to Edward Livingston, 1824. 

Reformers. 

He [James Russell Lowell] had pretty well 
given up making man over in his own image, as 
we all wish some time to do, and then no longer 
wish it. . . . When we have done our best to 
make the world over, we are apt to be dismayed 
by finding it in much the old shape. 

1557 Howells : Literary Friends, etc. 

Regret. 

He never complained about the past, never 
uttered a vain regret. He considered those words 
idle and profitless which men employ in pleading 
against irremediable evils. Hamertox : 

1588 Modem Frenchmen. Francois Rude. 

Religion. 

Religion is not an opinion about righteousness, 
it is the practice of righteousness. A religious 
education is not education in ethics. A religious 
education is the training of the religious nature. 

1559 Lyman Abbott: Problems of Life. 

Religion contracts the circle of our pleasures, 
but leaves it wide enough for her votaries to ex- 
patiate in. 

1560 Addison: The Spectator, No. 494. 

Religion is the basis of civil society, and the 
source of all good and of all comfort. Burke : 

1561 Reflections on the Revolution in France. 






DICTIONARY OF PROSE QUOTATIONS. 221 



Freedom of religion is one of the greatest gifts 
of God to man, without distinction of race and 
color. He is the author and lord of conscience, and 
no power on earth has a right to stand between 
God and the conscience. Philip Schaff : 

1562 Church and Stale in the United States. 

Religion cannot be forced and cannot be accepted 
for the sake of anything, force, fraud, or profit. 
Therefore what is so accepted is not religion but 
a fraud. And this religious fraud is a long- 
established condition of man's life. 

1563 Tolstoi : Essays, Letters, Miscellanies. 

Church and State. 
Remedy. 

It often happens in morals, as well as in physics, 
that the remedy is worse than the disease. 

1564 James Fenimore Cooper: 

Miles Wallingford, Ch. 30. 
Remembrance. 

The leafy blossoming present time springs from 
the whole past, remembered and unrememberable. 

1565 Carlyle : Cromwell's Letters and 

Speeches. Introduction, Ch. 1. 

There's rosemary, that's for remembrance ; . . . 
and there is pansies, that's for thoughts. 

1566 Shaks. : Hamlet, Act iv., Sc. 5. 

Remorse. 

Judgment hath bred a kind of remorse in me. 

1567 Shaks. : Richard ILL., Act i., Sc. 4. 

Renunciation. 

Renunciation remains sorrow, though a sorrow 
borne willingly. George Eliot : 

1568 Ihe Mill on the Floss, Bk. iv., Ch. 3. 



222 DICTIONARY OF PROSE QUOTATIONS. 

Repentance. 

R epentance is no other than a recanting of the 
wil% and opposition to our fancies, which lead us 
which way they please. Montaigne : 

1569 Essays. Bk. iii., Ch. 2. (Hazlitt, Trans.) 

Well, 111 repent, and that suddenly, while I am 
in some liking : I shall be out of heart shortly, 
and then I shall have no strength to repent. An' 
I have not forgotten what the inside of a church 
is made of; I am a peppercorn, a brewer's horse; 
the inside of a church ! Company, villanous com- 
pany, hath been the spoil of me. 

1570 Shaks. : 1 Henry IV., Act iii., Sc. 3. 

Republicanism. 

It is a part of the necessary theory of republican 
government, that every class and race shall be 
judged by its highest types, not its lowest. 

1571 Thomas Wentworth Higginson: 
Women and the Aljrfiabet. Temperament. 

The republican is the only form of government 
which is not eternally at open or secret war with 
the rights of mankind. Thomas Jefferson : 

1572 Reply to Address, 1790. 



Reputation. 

The reputation of the master reveals that of the 
servant. Cervantes: Don Quixote, p. 59. 

1573 (Burke's Trans.) 

How many people live on the reputation of the 
reputation they might have made ! 

1574 Holmes : The Autocrat of the 

Breakfast- Table, Ch. 3. 



DICTIONARY OF PROSE QUOTATIONS. 223 

Reputation, like beavers and cloaks, shall last 
some people twice the time of others. 

1575 Douglas Jerrold : Specimens of 

Jerrold's Wit. Reputations. 
Reputation is an idle and most false imposition : 
oft got without merit, and lost without deserving. 

1576 Shaks. : Othello, Act ii., Sc. 3. 
Associate with men of good quality, if you 

esteem }^our own reputation ; for it is better to be 
alone than in bad company. 

1577 George Washington: Social Maxims. 

Resentment. 

Resentment gratifies him who intended an 
injury, and pains him unjustly who did not intend 
it. Dr. Johnson : BosivelVs Life of Johnson. 

1578 IV. 367. {George Birkbeck Hill, Ed.) 

Resignation. 

Thought leads to resignation. Amiel : 

1579 Journal, 1866. {Mrs. H. Ward, Trans.) 

Respect. 

Proper respect for some persons is best pre- 
served by avoiding their neighborhood. 

1580 George W . Curtis : The Poliphar Papers. 

You will be worthy of respect from all when 
you have first learnt to respect yourself. 

1581 MusoniuS: (Stobams, Florilegium) . 

Respectability. 

To be respectable implies a multitude of little 
observances, from the strict keeping of Sunday, 
down to the careful tying of a cravat. 

1582 Victor Hugo: The Toilers of the Sea, 

Pt. i., Bk. iii., Ch. 12. 



224 DICTIONARY OF PROSE QUOTATIONS. 

Responsibility. 

Responsibility is one instrument — a great instru- 
ment — of education, both moral and intellectual. 
It sharpens the faculties. It unfolds the moral 
nature. It makes the careless prudent, and turns 
recklessness into sobriety. 

1583 Wendell Phillips : Speeches, 
Lectures, and Letters. Woman's Bights. 

The plea of ignorance will never take away our 
responsibilities. Ruskin: Lectures on 

1584 Architecture and Painting. 

Rest. 

Rest is for the dead. Carlyle : 

1585 Thomas Carlyle. By Froude. 

Restraint. 

When you have anything to communicate that 
will distress the heart of the person whom it con- 
cerns, be silent, in order that he may hear from 
some one else. Saadi : The Gulistan, 

1586 Ch. 8. Bulesfor Conduct in Life. 

Results. 

There is no chance in results. 

1587 Emerson: Conduct of Life. Power. 

Resurrection. 

Happy are we if on the body of the resurrection 
we can bear the face with which victorious Chris- 
tians leave the earth. 

1588 Samuel Willoughby Duffield: 

Fragments. 

Retreat. 

Let us make an honorable retreat. 

1589 Shaks. : As You Like Lt, Act iii., Sc. 2. 



DICTIONARY OF PROSE QUOTATIONS. 225 

Revelation. 

I am verily persuaded the Lord has more truth 
yet to break forth out of his holy word. . . . f 
oeseech you, remember (it is an article of youi 
church covenant) that you be ready to receive 
whatever truth shall be made known to you from 
the word of God. 

1590 John Robinson: Farewell Address 

to the Pilgrims , 1620. 
Revenge. 

In revenge, haste is criminal. 

1591 Bacon: Moral and Historical Works. 

Ornamenta Bationalia. 

He that studieth revenge, keepeth his own 
wounds green. 

1592 Bacon: Ornamenta Bationalia. 

Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the 
more man's nature runs to, the more ought law to 
weed it out. 

1593 Bacon: Essays. Of Revenge. 

There's small revenge in words, but words may 
be greatly revenged. 

1594 Benjamin Franklin : Poor Richard's Al. 

If it will feed nothing else, it will feed my 
revenge. 

1595 Shaks. : M. of Venice, Act iii., Sc. 1. 

Revenge is the naked idol of the worship of a 
semi-barbarous age. 

1596 Shelley: A Defence of Poetry. 

Reverence. 

Reverence begins with reverence of the child 
for its parents, goes on with reverence to the ideal- 



226 DICTIONARY OF PROSE QUOTATIONS. 

ized heroes of past history, and reaches up to 
reverence to the Almighty. 

1597 Lyman Abbott: Problems of Life. 

I am disposed to think that if reverence for the 
gods were destroyed, Ave should also lose honest}/ 
and the brotherhood of mankind, and that most 
excellent of all virtues, justice. 

1598 Cicero : Be Natura Deorum, L, 2, 4. 

To yield reverence to another, to hold ourselves 
and our lives at his disposal, is not slavery ; often, 
it is the noblest state in which a man can live in 
this world. Ruskin : The Stones of Venice. 

1599 The Sea Stories, Ch. 6, Sec. 15. 

Revolutions. 

Great revolutions, whatever may be their causes, 
are not lightly commenced, and are not concluded 
with precipitation. 

1600 Disraeli (Earl of Beaconsfield) : 
Address, House of Commons, Feb. 5, 1863. 

Revolutions are not made: they come. A revo- 
lution is as natural a growth as an oak. It comes 
out of the past. Its foundations are laid far back. 

1601 Wendell Phillips : Orations, 

Speeches, Lectures, and Letters. 

To reject an established government, to break 
up a political constitution, is revolution. 

1602 Daniel Webster : Sjjeech, 
United States Senate, Feb. 16, 1833. 

Rewards. 

In the kingdom of God the reward of a great 
service is the opportunity to render a still greater 
service. 

1603 Lyman Abbott : Problems of Life. 



DICTIONARY OF PROSE QUOTATIONS. 227 

Rhythm. 

Thus, then, rhythm is a necessary characteristic 
of all motion. Given the co-existence everywhere 
of antagonist forces — a postulate which, as we 
have seen, is necessitated by the form of our ex- 
perience — and rhythm is an inevitable corollary 
from the persistence of force. 

1604 Herbert Spencer : 
Synthetic Philosophy. First Principles. 

Riches. 

Riches have wings, and sometimes they fly 
away of themselves, sometimes they must be set 
flying to bring in more. 

1605 Bacon: Essays. Of Riches. 

Riches are not an end of life, but an instrument 
of life. Henry Ward Beecher : 

1606 Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit. 

A good name is better than riches. 

1607 Cervantes: Don Quixote, Pt. ii., Ch. 33. 

To be thought rich is as good as to be rich. 

1608 Thackeray: The Virginians, Ch. 2-1. 

Riddle. 

Men are not going to answer the riddle of the 
painful earth by building themselves shanties, and 
living upon beans, and watching ant-fights. 

1609 Howells : Literary Friends and 
Acquaintance. My First Visit to New Eng. 

Ridicule. 

Ridicule is the stifler of all enerow anion srst 
those she controls. 

1610 Bulwer-Lytton : Godolpliin. Ch. 51. 



228 DICTIONARY OF PROSE QUOTATIONS. 

Ridicule, the weapon of all others most feared 
by enthusiasts of every description, and which, 
from its predominance over such minds, often 
checks what is absurd, and fully as often smothers 
that which is noble. Walter Scott : 

1611 Quentin Burward, Ch. 34. 

Right. 

Sir, I would rather be right than be President. 

1612 Henry Clay: Speech, 1850 {Referring 

to the Compromise Measures} . 

Right is more beautiful than private affection, 
and is compatible with universal wisdom. 

1613 Emerson : Representative Men . 

Shakespeare, 

My principle is to do whatever is right, and 
leave the consequences to Him who has the dis- 
posal of them. Thomas Jefferson : 

1614 Letter to Br. George Logan, 1813. 

Let us have faith that right makes might, and in 
that faith let us dare to do our duty as we under- 
stand it. Lincoln : The Life, Public Services, 

16 15 and State Papers of Abraham Lincoln. 

Righteousness. 

The Saviour comes in the strength of righteous- 
ness. Righteousness is at the bottom of all things. 
Righteousness is thorough ; it is the very spirit 
of unsparing truth. Phillips Brooks : 

1616 Sermons . III. The Conquer o rfrom Edom . 

Righteousness exalteth a nation. 

1617 Old Testament ; Proverbs xiv. 34. 



DICTIONARY OF PROSE QUOTATIONS. 229 

Rights. 

If we cannot secure all our rights, let us secure 
what we can. Thomas Jefferson : 

1618 Letter to James Madison, March, 1789. 

ISTo man's conscience can tell him the rights of 
another man; they must be known by rational 
investigation or historical inquiry. 

1619 Dr. Johnson: 

BoswelVs Life of Johnson. II. 234. 
(George Birkbeck Hill, Editor.} 

Rivers. 

A river is the cosiest of friends. You must love 
it and live with it before you can know it. 

1620 George William Curtis : 

Lotus- Eating. The Hudson and the Rhine. 

Romance. 

The romance is a gospel of some philosophy or 
of some religion ; and requires sustained thought 
on many or some of the deepest subjects, as the 
only rational alternative to placing ourselves at 
the mercy of our author. 

1621 Gladstone: Later Gleanings. 

" Robert Elsmere " : Ihe Battle of Belief. 

Every form of human life is romantic. 

1622 Thomas Went worth Higgixsox : 

Atlantic Essays.. A Plea for Culture (1867). 

Rose. 

There is no gathering the rose without being 
pricked by the thorns. 

1623 Pilpay (or Bidpai) : 

The Two Travellers, Ch, 2, Fable 6. 



230 DICTIONARY OF PROSE QUOTATIONS. 

Royalty. 

Princes are like to heavenly bodies, which 
cause good or evil times, and which have much 
veneration, but no rest. 

1624 Bacon: Essays. Of Empire. 

Rural Life. 

The love of rural life, the habit of finding joy- 
ment in familiar things, that susceptibility to 
Nature which keeps the nerve gently thrilled in 
her homeliest nooks and by her commonest 
sounds, is worth a thousand fortunes of money, or 
its equivalents. Henry Ward Beecher: 

1625 Introductory Letter to Charles Dudley 

Warutr's "Summer in a Garden." 



S. 
Sabbath. 

Sabbath-days, — quiet islands on the tossing 
sea of life. 

1626 Samuel Willoughby Duffield : 

Fragments. 

The Sabbath was made for man, and not man 
for the Sabbath. 

1627 New Testament: Mark ii. 27. 

Sacrifice. 

Temporary sacrifices are necessary to save per- 
manent rights. Thomas Jefferson: 

1628 Letter to Dr. William Euslis, 1809. 

Sadness. 

Those who have known grief seldom seem sad. 

1629 Disraeli (Earl of Beaconsfield) : 

Endymion, Ch. 4. 



DICTIONARY OF PROSE QUOTATIONS. 231 

It is a melancholy of mine own, compounded of 
many simples, extracted from many objects, and 
indeed the sundry contemplation of my travels, in 
which my often rumination wraps me in a most 
humorous sadness. 

1630 Shaks. : As You Like It, Act iv., Sc. 1. 

Safety. 

In the multitude of counsellors there is safety. 

1631 Old Testament: Proverbs*!. 14. 

Salt. 

Salt is white and pure, — there is something 
holy in salt. 

1632 Hawthorne: American Note-Book*. 

Salem, Oct. 4, 18-10. 

As boys do sparrows, with flinging salt upon 
their tails. 

1633 Swift: Tale of a Tub, Sec. 7. 

Salvation. 

It r s no my view o 1 human life that a man's sent 
into the warld just to save his soul, an' creep out 
again. An 1 I said I wad leave the savin' o 1 mv 
soul to Him that made my soul ; it was in richt 
gude keeping there, I'd warrant. 

1634 Charles Kingsley: Alton Locke, Ch. 33. 

Sarcasm. 

The arrows of sarcasm are barbed with con- 
tempt. ... It is the sneer in the satire, or the 
ridicule that galls and wounds. 

1635 Washington Gladden: Things (fid 
and New*. VII. The Taming of the Tongue. 



232 DICTIONARY OF PROSE QUOTATIONS. 

Satan. 

Now there was a day when the sons of God 
came to present themselves before the Lord, and 
Satan came also among them. 

1G36 Old Testament: Job i. 6. 

Satiety. 

There is no pleasure the constant enjoyment of 
which does not breed satiety. 

1637 Pliny the Elder: 

Natural History, xii., 40. 
Satire. 

Satire is a sort of glass wherein beholders do 
generally discover everybody's face but their own, 
which is the chief reason for that kind reception it 
meets with in the world. Swift : 

1638 The Battle of the Books. Preface. 

Satirists. 

Satirists gain the applause of others through fear, 
not through love. 

1639 Hazlitt: Characteristics. No. 72. 

Satisfaction. 

Every real need is stilled, and every vice is 
stimulated by satisfaction. 

16-10 Amiel: Journal, Dec. 15, 1859. 

. (Mrs. Humphrey Ward, Translator.) 
Scandal. 

A cruel story runs on wheels, and every hand 
oils the wheels as they run. Ouida : 

1641 Wisdom, Wit, and Pathos. Moths. 

Schemes. 

Men's schemes are ruined oft by want of 
thought. 

1642 Menander: Monosticha, 15. 



DICTIONARY OF PROSE QUOTATIONS. 233 

Schisms. 

If in criticising and deploring schisms it is un- 
fair not to take into account the advantages that 
have been derived from them, so it is also unsren- 
erous to speak of them as having had their origin 
in a desire for division or in a blind devotion to 
metaphysical and trivial doctrinal distinctions. 

1643 George C. Lorimer: 

Christianity in the Nineteenth Century. 

Scholars. 

A great scholar, in the highest sense of the 
term, is not one who depends simply on an infinite 
memory, but also on an infinite and electrical 
power of combination ; bringing together from 
the four winds, like the Angel of the Resurrec- 
tion, what else were dust from dead men's bones, 
into the unity of breathing life. 

1 6-4-4 De Quixcey: Essays. On Pope. 

The mind of the scholar, if you would have it 
large and liberal, should come in contact with 
other minds. It is better that his armor should be 
somewhat bruised by rude encounters, even, than 
hang forever rusting on the wall. 

1645 Longfellow: Hyperion, Bk. i., Ch. 8. 

Schoolmaster. 

The Schoolmaster is abroad ! and I trust more 
to him, armed with his primer, than I do to the 
soldier in full military array, for upholding and 
extending the liberties of his country. 

1646 Lord Brougham: 
Speech in the House of Commons, Jan. 29, 1828. 

Why are we never quite at ease in the presence 
of a schoolmaster ? — because we are conscious 



234 DICTIONARY OF PROSE QUOTATIONS. 

that he is not quite at his ease in ours. . . . He 
comes like Gulliver from among his little people, 
and he cannot lit the stature of his understanding to 
yours. He cannot meet you on the square. . . . 
He is so used to teaching that he wants to be teach- 
ing you. Charles Lamb: Essays of Elia. 

1647 Old and New Schoolmaster. 

Science. 

Science has not found a substitute for God. 

1648 Henry Drummond: 

The New Evangelism. 
Science does not know its debt to imaoination. 

1649 Emerson : Letters and Social Aims. 

Poetry and Imagination. 
In the earliest ages science was poetry, as in 
the latter poetry has become science. 

1650 Lowell : Among My Books. Witchcraft. 

The work of science is to substitute facts for 
appearances, and demonstrations for impressions. 

1651 Ruskin: The Stones of Venice. 

The Fall, Ch. 2, Sec. 8. 

Science is the great antidote to the poison of 
enthusiasm and superstition. Adam Smith : 

1652 The Wealth of Nations, Bk. v., Pt. iii. 

Science is organized knowledge. 

1653 Herbert Spencer: Education, Ch. 2. 

Science, however, like Religion, has but very 
incomplete^ fulfilled its office. As Religion has 
fallen short of its function in so far as it has been 
irreligious ; so has Science fallen short of its 
function in so far as it has been unscientific. 

1654 Herbert Spencer: Synthetic 
Philosophy. First Principles, Ch. 5, Sec. 29. 



DICTIONARY OF PROSE QUOTATIONS. 235 

Scorn. 

As we scorn them who scorn us, so the con- 
tempt of the world (not seldom) makes men 
proud. 

1655 Hazlitt: Characteristics. No. 12:3. 

Scrivener. 

A votary of the desk — a notched and cropt 
scrivener — one that sucks his substance, as cer- 
tain sick people are said to do, through a quill. 

1656 Charles Lamb: Essays of Elia. 

Oxford in the Vacation. 
Sculpture. 

The beauty of a plastic work is, above all, 
plastic; and an art always degenerates when, 
discarding its own peculiar means for exciting 
interest, it borrows those of another art. 

1657 Taixe : The Ideal in Art. 

Sea. 

The sea has no appreciation of great men, but 
knocks them about like the small fry. 

1658 Dickens: Bleak^Housc, Ch. 12. 
I do not want to be buried in the ground when I 

die. But bury me, rather, in the deep blue sea, 
where the coral rocks shall be my pillow, and the 
seaweeds shall be my winding-sheet, and where 
the waves of the ocean shall sing my requiem for 
ever and ever. Rev. Edward T. Taylor 

1659 (Father Taylor) : Incidents and 
Anecdotes of Rev. Edward T. Taylor by 

Rev. Gilbert Haren and Hon. Thomas 11 u sst 11. 

Seclusion. 

I want to hide away in deeper depths of seclu- 
sion, where I can wear overalls if 1 want to, and 



236 DICTIONARY OF PROSE QUOTATIONS. 

cowhide boots, mount or try to mount a bicycle in 
my own grounds, and entertain the Wild Man of 
Borneo if he should "just come to town," without 
a chorus of invidious comment. 

1660 Kate Sanborn: 
Abandoning an Adopted Farm, Ch. 1. 

Secrecy. 

Three may keep a secret, if two of them are 
dead. 

1661 Benjamin Franklin: Poor Richard's AL 

If you wish to preserve your secret, wrap it up 
in frankness. Alexander Smith: 

1662 Drectmlhorp. On the Writing of Essays. 

Secrets. 

A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every 
human creature is constituted to be that profound 
secret and mystery to every other. A solemn con- 
sideration, when I enter a great city by night, that 
every one of those darkly clustered houses encloses 
its own secret ; that every room in every one of 
them encloses its own secret ; that every beating- 
heart in the hundreds of thousands of breasts 
there, is, in some of its imaginings, a secret to 
the heart nearest it ! 

1663 Dickens : A Tale of Two Cities, Ch. 3. 

Seditions. 

The surest way to prevent seditions (if the 
times do bear it) is to take away the matter of 
them. For if there be fuel prepared, it is hard to 
tell whence the spark shall come that shall set it 
on fire. Bacon : 

1664 Essays. Of Seditions and Troubles. 



DICTIONARY OF PROSE QUOTATIONS. 237 

Self-Conceit 

Self-contemplation is apt to end in self-conceit. 

1665 Henry Ward Beecher: 

Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit. 

Self-Confidence. 

Self-confidence is either a petty pride in onr 
own narrowness, or a realization of our duty and 
privileges as "one of God's children. 

1666 Phillips Brooks: Sermons. 

XVIII. The Shortness of Life. 
Self-Conquest. 

No man is such a conqueror as the man who has 
defeated himself. Henry Ward Beecher : 

1667 Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit. 

Self-Consciousness. 

A mirror % is the very foundation of self- 
consciousness. Auerbach : 

1668 On the Heights. {Bennett, Translator.) 

Self-Deceit. 

Self-deceit is the veiled image of unknown evil, 
before which luxury and satiety lie prostrate. 

1669 Shelley: A Defence of Poetry . 

Self-Denial. 

Self-denial is indispensable to a strong charac- 
ter, and the loftiest kind thereof comes only of a 
religious stock, — from consciousness of obliera- 
tion and dependence upon God. 

1670 Theodore Parker: 

Ten Sermons of Religion. 



Self-Esteem. 




A self-made man ? 


Yes ; and worships his 


creator. 




1671 


Henry Clapp: A Jest. 



238 DICTIONARY OF PROSE QUOTATIONS. 

I look upon the too good opinion tjiat man has 
of himself to be the nursing-mother of all the false 
opinions, both public and private. 

1672 Montaigne: Essays, Bk. ii., Cli. 17. 

(Hazlitt, Translator.} 
Self-Go vernment. 

Self-government assumes, not that every man 
can safely govern himself, but first that it is safer 
to leave every man to govern himself than to put 
any man under the government of another man ; 
or any -class of men under the government of 
another class. 

1673 Lyman Abbott : Problems of Life. 
The right of self-government does not compre- 
hend the government of others. 

1674 Thomas Jefferson : Official Opinion. 

Self -Help. 

God helps them that help themselves. 

1675 Benjamin Franklin: Poor RichairVs Al. 

God gives every bird its food, but does not throw 
it into the nest. 

1676 Timothy Titcomb (J. G. Holland) : 

Gold-Foil. VII. Providence. 
Self-Improvement. 

The safest principle through life, instead of re- 
forming others, is to set about perfecting yourself. 

1677 B. R. Haydon: Table Talk. 

Self-Interest. 

Self-interest is the most ingenious and persua- 
sive of all the agents that deceive our consciences, 
while by means of it our unhappy and stubborn 
prejudices operate in their greatest force. 

1678 Bryant : Prose Writings. Lectures on 

Poetry. The Value and Uses of Poetry. 



DICTIONARY OF PROSE QUOTATIONS. 239 

Selfishness. 

Selfishness at the expense of others 1 happiness 
is de monism. 

1679 Henry Ward Beecher: 

Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit. 

The same people who can deny others every- 
thing are famous for refusing themselves nothing. 

1680 Leigh Hunt : Table Talk. 
Catherine the Second of Russia. 

Self -Knowledge. 

Marry, sir, they praise me, and make an ass of 
me ; now my foes tell me plainly I am an ass : so 
that by my foes, sir, I profit in the knowledge of 
myself. 

1681 Shaks. : Tw. Night, Act v., Sc. 1. 

Self-Love. 

The way to get out of self-love is to love God. 

1682 Phillips Brooks : Sermons. 
XX. The Posiliuencss of Divine Life. 

O villanous ! I have looked upon the world for 
four times seven years ! and since I could dis- 
tinguish between a benefit and an injury I never 
found a man that knew how to love himself. 

1683 Shaks. : Othello, Act i., Sc. 3. 

Self-Praise. 

There is, perhaps, one thing still more nauseat- 
ing than the world's apathy, and that is its self- 
praise ; its admiration of its own charities, so 
miserably insignificant beside the extravagance 
of its own pleasures. 

1684 Ouida: Critical Studies, 

The Quality of Mercy. 



240 DICTIONARY OF PROSE QUOTATIONS. 

Self-Reproach. 

I will chide no breather in the world but my- 
self, against whom I know most faults. 

1685 Shaks. : As You Like It, Act in.. Sc. 2. 

Self-Respect. 

Self-respect, — that corner-stone of all virtue. 

1686 Sir John Herschel: 

Address, Jan. 29, 1833. 

A man who is not ashamed of himself need not 
be ashamed of his early condition. 

1687 Daniel Webster: 
Speech, Saratoga, N. F., Aug. 12, 1840. 

Self-Righteousness, 

Whoever is acquainted with the nature of man- 
kind in general, or the propensity of his own 
heart in particular, must acknowledge that self- 
righteousness is the last idol that is rooted out of 
his heart. George Whitefield : 

1688 Sermons. Self- Righteousness. 

Self-Sacrifice. 

In this world it is not what we take up, but what 
we give up, that makes us rich. 

1689 Henry Ward Beecher : Life Thoughts. 

The self-sacrifice of the Christian is always an 
echo of the self-sacrifice of Christ. 

1690 Phillips Brooks: Sermons. 
XX. The Fositiveness of the Divine Life. 

Sensuality. 

Sensuality is the grave of the soul. 

1691 William Ellery Channing: 

Note-Book. Evil. Sin. 



DICTIONARY OF PROSE QUOTATIONS. 241 

Service. 

Masters, give unto your servants — not that 
which is the least you can give, the least you can 
get the service rendered for, the least possible 
wage, but that which is just and equal. We 
must have just and noble men, and God-fearing- 
men, for employers and for employed. Then the 
industrial problem is solved, and not before. 

1692 Lyman Abbott: Problems of Life 
The world's servant must prove to the world 

that he can serve it. The world must compensate 
him at its estimate and not at his own. 

1693 Edward E.Hale: Address before 
the Annual Convention of Alpha Delta Phi, 1871. 

Shadows. 

What shadows we are, what shadows we pursue ! 

1694 Burke : Speech at Bristol on 

Declining the Poll, 1780. 

Shakespeare. 

Of the scope of Shakespeare I will say only, 
that the intellectual measure of every man since 
born in the domains of creative thought may be 
assigned to him according to the degree in which 
he has been taught by Shakespeare. 

1695 Ruskix : Sesame and Lilies. 

Of the Mystery of Life. 

Shame. 

Where shame is, there is fear. 

1696 Milton : The ficason of Church 
Government Against Prclaty, Ch. 3 

Shiftlessness. 

Shiftlessness is mostly only another name for 
aimlessness. 

1697 Charles H. Parkitcjrst: Sermons. 



242 DICTIONARY OF PROSE QUOTATIONS. 

Shipwreck. 

The man who has suffered shipwreck shudders 
even at a calm sea. 

1698 Ovid: Epislolce ex Ponto, ii., 7, 8. 

Silence. 

Silence never shows itself to so great an advan- 
tage as when it is made the reply to calumny and 
defamation, provided that we give no just occasion 
for them. 

1699 Addison: The Taller. No. 133. 

The great silent man ! Looking around on the 
noisy inanity of the world, — words with little 
meaning, actions with little worth, — one loves to 
reflect on the great Empire of Silence. 

1700 Carlyle : Heroes and Hero Worship. 

The Hero as King. 

There are some silent people who are more in- 
teresting than the best talkers. 

1701 Disraeli (Earl of Beaconsfield) : 

Endymion, Ch. 35. 

Your very silence shows that you agree. 

1702 Euripides: Iphigenia in Aulide, 1142. 

Silence gives consent. 

1703 Oliver Goldsmith: 

The Good-Matured Man, Act ii. 

Silence at the proper season is wisdom, and 
better than any speech. 

1704 Plutarch : Morals. On Education. 

( Shilleto , Translator.) 
Similarity. 

Like begets like the world over. 

1705 A. Bronson Alcott : Table- Talk. 

III. Pursuits. Nobility. 



DICTIONARY OF PROSE QUOTATIONS. 243 

Simulation. 

Simulation is a vice rising either of a natural 
falseness, or fearfulness, or of a mind that hath 
some main faults, which because a man must 
needs disguise, it maketh him practise simulation 
in other things, lest his hand should be out of ure ! 

1706 Bacon: Essays. 

Of Simulation and Dissimulation. 

Sin. 

Our sins are more easily remembered than our 
good deeds. 

1707 Democritus: (Stobceus, Florilegium 

xlvi. 47). 

Pride and conceit were the original sin of man. 

1708 Le Sage: Gil Bias : Bk. vii., Ch. 3. 

{Smollett, Translator.) 

Sin, every day, takes out a patent for some new 
invention. 

1709 E. P. Whipple: Essays and Reviews . 

Romance of Rascality. 

Sincerity. 

Private sincerity is a public welfare. 

1710 C. A. Bartol: Radical Problems. 

Individualism. 

Sincerity is the way to heaven. The attainment 
of sincerity is the way of man. 

1711 Confucius: The Doctrine of the Mean, 

Ch. 20, Sec. 18. (Lcggc, Translator.) 

Sincerity is impossible unless it pervade the 
whole being ; and the pretence of it saps the very 
foundation of character. 

1712 Lowell: My Study Windows, Pope. 



244 DICTIONARY OF PROSE QUOTATIONS. 

Singing. 

Singing has nothing to do with the affairs of 
this world : it is not for the law. Singers are 
merry, and free from sorrows and cares. 

1713 Martin Luther: Table-Talk. 
Of Universities, Arts, etc. Xo. 839. 

For my voice, I have lost it with hollaing and 
singing of anthems. 

1714 Shaks. : 2 Henry IV., Act i., Sc. 2. 

Skill. 

There is always a best way of doing everything, 
if it be to boil an egg. 

1715 Emerson: Conduct of Life. Behavior. 

Sky. 

Sky is the part of creation in which Nature has 
done more for the sake of pleasing man, more for 
the sole and evident purpose of talking to him and 
teaching him, than in any other of her works, and 
it is just the part in which we least attend to her. 

1716 Ruskin: Modern Painters, Pt. ii., Ch. 1. 

Slander. 

Slanderers I have thought it best to leave to the 
scourge of public opinion. 

1717 Thomas Jefferson: 
Letter to Be Witt Clinton, 1807. 

If slander be a snake, it is a winged one : it 
flies as well as creeps. Douglas Jerrold : 

1718 Specimens of Jerrold" s Wit. 

Enemies carry about slander, not in the form in 
which it took its rise. . . . The scandal of men 
is everlasting : even then does it survive when 
you would suppose it to be dead. 

1719 Plautus: The Persian, Act iii., Sc. 1. 



DICTIONARY OF PROSE QUOTATIONS. 245 

Slavery. 

Slavery they can have everywhere. It is a 
weed that grows in every soil. Burke : 

1720 Speech, March 22, 1775. 
On Conciliation with America. 

Slavery tolerates no freedom of the press, no 
freedom of speech, no freedom of opinion. 

1721 Hinton Rowan Helper: 

The Impending Crisis of the South. 

I tremble for my country when I reflect that 
God is jast; that his justice cannot sleep forever; 
that considering numbers, nature, and natural 
means only, a revolution of the wheel of fortune, 
an exchange of situation, is among possible events ; 
that it may become probable by supernatural inter- 
ference! The Almighty has no attribute which 
can take side with us in such a contest. 

1722 Thomas Jefferson: Notes on Virginia. 

Enslave a man and you destroy his ambition, his 
enterprise, his capacity. In the constitution of 
human nature, the desire of bettering one's condi- 
tion is the mainspring of effort. The first touch 
of slavery snaps this spring. 

1723 Horace Mann; Slavery, Letters, and 
Speeches. Speech U. S. House of Rep., 1848. 

None can be free who is a slave to, and ruled 
by, his passions. Pythagoras : 

1724 (Stobceus, Florilegium. xviii., 23). 

The most onerous slavery is to be a slave to 
oneself. Seneca : 

1725 Natural Questions, iii., Praefatio, 17. 

Our new government is founded upon exactly 
the opposite idea [the assumption of the equality 



246 DICTIONARY OF PROSE QUOTATIONS. 

of races] ; its foundations are laid, its corner-stone 
rests, upon the great truth that the negro is not 
equal to the white man, that slavery — subordina- 
tion to the superior race — is his natural and 
normal condition. 

1726 Alexander H. Stephens : Address 

at Savannah, Ga., March 21, 1861. 

Where slavery is there liberty cannot be, and 
where liberty is there slavery cannot be. 

1727 Charles Sumner: 

Slavery and the Rebellion. 

Sleep. 

Blessings light on him who first invented this 
same sleep ! It covers a man all over, thoughts 
and all, like a cloak. It is meat for the hungry, 
drink for the thirsty, heat for the cold, and cold 
for the hot. It is the current coin that purchases 
all the pleasures of the world cheap, aud the 
balance that sets the king and the shepherd, the 
fool and the wise man, even. There is only one 
thing, which somebody once put into my head, 
that I dislike in sleep ; it is, that it resembles 
death ; there is very little difference between a 
man in his first sleep, and a man in his last sleep. 

1728 Cervantes: Don Quixote, Pt. ii., Ch. 68. 

(Lockharl, Translator.} 

Sleep is the best cure for waking troubles. 

1729 Cervantes : Don Quixote, Pt. ii., Ch. 70. 

(Jar vis, Translator . ) 

Much sleep is not required by nature, either for 
our souls or bodies, or for the actions in which 
they are concerned. Plato : 

1730 Laws vii. 13 (Stephens, p. 808. b). 



DICTIONARY OF PROSE QUOTATIONS. 247 

And I pray you let none of your people stir me : 
I have an exposition of sleep come upon me. 

1731 Shaks. : Mid. N. Dream, Aet iv., Sc. 1. 

Slip. 

There is many a slip 'twixt the cup and the lip. 

1732 Hazlitt : English Proverbs. 

Slothfulness. 

Sloth, like rust, consumes faster than labor 
wears, while the used key is alwa3 T s bright. 

1733 Benjamin Franklin : Poor Richard's Al. 

Sluggards. 

Sluggards have been sent to the ant for wisdom ; 
but writers might better be sent to the spider, — 
not because he works all night, and watches all 
day, but because he works unconsciously. 

1734 Henrv Ward Beecher : Introductory 

Letter to Charles Dudley Warner's 
" Summer in a Garden" 
Smiles. 

There are few faces that can afford to smile : a 
smile is sometimes bewitching, in general vapid, 
often a contortion. 

1735 Disraeli (Earl of Beaconsfield) : 

Tancrecl, Bk. ii., Ch. 7. 

A smile is ever the most bright and beautiful 

with a tear upon it. What is the dawn without 

the dew ? The tear is rendered by the smile 

precious above the smile itself. 

1736 Landor: Imaginary Conversations. 

Dante and Gemma Donati. 
Smoking. 

lie [Lowell] had been smoking the pipe he 
loved, and he put it back in his mouth presently. 



248 DICTIONARY OF PROSE QUOTATIONS. 

as if he found himself at greater ease with it when 
he began to chat. Howells : 

1737 Literary Friends and Acquaintance, 

My First Visit to New England. 
Sneer. 

Who can refute a sneer ? 

1738 William Paley: Moral Philosophy. 

Bk. v.. Ch. 9. 
Snobs. 

An immense percentage of Snobs. I believe, is 
to be found in every rank of this mortal life. 

1739 Thackeray: Miscellanies. Book of 

Snobs. Prefatory Remarks. 

That which we call a Snob, by any other name 
would still be snobbish. Thackeray : 

1740 Miscellanies. Book of Snobs. 

Society. 

Society is a place in which we interchange life. 
— at least it ought to be : a place where I give 
you my thoughts, and you give me your thoughts : 
I give you my experience, you give me your ex- 
perience ; I give you something of my life, you 
give me something of your life. 

1741 Lyman Abbott: Problems of Life. 

Society is a masked ball, where every one hides 
his real character, and reveals it by hiding. 

1742 Emerson : Worsh ip . 

Society everywhere is in conspiracy against the 
manhood of every one of its members. Society is 
a joint-stock company, in which the members 
agree, for the better securing of his bread to each 
shareholder, to surrender the liberty and culture 
of the eater. 

1743 Emerson : Essays. Self-Reliance. 



DI« riONABY OF I I - 

Human society is made up of partialiti 3. 
citizen has an interest and a I - \vn. 

which, if followed out to the extreme, would les 
no room for any other citizen. 

1744 Emerson: Miscellanies, IF 
Men would not live long in society they 

not the dup - I tear. 

1745 La Rochefoucauld: I. 

No. 87. 
Society is no comfort to one no: - : iable. 

1746 " Shaks. : Oymbeline, Act : ... Sc. 2. 

Soil. 

The difference between soil and society is 
dent. We bury decay in the int in it 

the perishing: we teed it with offensive refuse: 
but nothing grows out of it that is not clean : if 
gives us back life and beauty for our rubbish. 
Society returns us what we give it. 

1747 Charles Dudley Warnkb : 
My Sum/ farden. Ninetet 

Soldiers. 

Nothing is more binding than the friendship 
companions-in-arms . 

174^ George S. Hillard : 

Life and Camper, is y - I M Jlellan. 

I should think he was coming the old soldi 
over me. and keeping up his ^ame. 

1749 WalterScott .. 18. 

Fie. my lord, tie ! a soldier and afear'd ? 

17" Shaks. : M . Act v.. Sc 1. 

Methinks it were meete that any one. before he 
come to be a captayne. should have been a soldier. 

1751 Spenser : - md. 



250 DICTIONARY OF PROSE QUOTATIONS. 

Solicitude. 

You are solicitous of the good-will of the mean- 
est person, uneasy at his ill-will. 

1752 Emerson: Essays. 

Mrs. Todgers looked a little warm by cares of 
gravy and other such solicitudes arising out of her 
establishment. 

1753 Dickens: Martin Chazzlewit, Ch. 32. 

Solidity. 

The idea of solidity we receive by our touch ; 
and it arises from the resistance which we find m 
a body to the entrance of an} other body into the 
place it possesses until it has left it. 

1751 Locke: Human Under standing, 

Bk. ii., Ch. 4. 

Solitude. 

Little do men perceive what solitude is, and 
how far it extendeth ; for a crowd is not company. 

1755 Bacon: Essays. Of Friendship. 

Solitude, though it may be silent as light, is 
like light, the mightiest of agencies ; for solitude 
is essential to man. All men come Into this world 
alone ; all leave it alone. 

1756 De Quincev: Confessions of 
an English Ojrium- Eater. Sequel. Pt. i. 



Solitude is as needful to the imagination as 
society is wholesome for the character. 

1757 Lowell: Among My Books. Dryden. 

Never does the soul feel so far from human life 
as when a man finds himself alone in the vistas of 
the moon, either in the streets of a sleeping city, 



DICTIONARY OF PROSE QUOTATIONS. 251 

the avenues of the woods, or by the border of the 
sea. 

1758 Elizabeth Stoddard: Two Men, Ch. 16. 

Song. 

All deep things are song. 

1759 Carlyle : Heroes and Hero Worship. 

The Hero as Poet. 
What is the voice of song, when the world lacks 
the ear of taste ? 

1760 Hawthorne: 

The Snow Image and Other Twice lold Tales. 
All great song, from the first day when human 
lips contrived syllables, has been sincere song. 

1761 Ruskin : Ihe Queen of the Air, Sec. 48. 

I never heard the old song of Percy and Doug- 
lass, that I found not my heart moved more than 
with a trumpet. 

1762 Sir Philip Sidney : The Defence of Poesy. 

A careless song, with a little nonsense in it now 
and then, does uot misbecome a monarch. 

1763 Horace Walpole : Letter, 1774. 

To Sir Horace Mann. 
Sons. 

Adam's sons are my brethren. 

1764 Shaks. : Much Ado, Actii., Sc. 1. 

Sophister. 

The age of chivalry is gone ; that of sophisters, 
economists, and calculators has come. 

1765 Burke: Revolution in France. 

Sophistry. 

Men of great conversational powers almost 
universally practise a sort of lively sophistry and 



252 DICTIONARY OF PROSE QUOTATIONS. 

exaggeration which deceives, for the moment, 
both themselves and their auditors. 

1766 Macaulay: Athenian Orators. 

Sophomoric. 

They sat one day drawn thus close together, 
sipping and theorizing, speculating upon the 
nature of things in an easy, bold, sophomoric way. 

1767 G. W. Cable: Old Creole Days, p. 13. 

Some verbose Fourth of July oration, or some 
sophomorical newspaper declamation. 

1768 Harriet Beecher Stowe: 

Oldlown Papers, p. 435. 

Sorrow. 

We pick our own sorrows out of the joys of 
other men, and from their sorrows likewise we 
derive our joys. 

1769 Owen Felltham : Resolves, Pt. i. 

The natural effect of sorrow over the dead is to 
refine and elevate the mind, 

1770 Washington Irving: 

The Sketch- Book. Rural Funerals. 

Sorrow is the mere rust of the soul. Activity 
will cleanse and brighten it. 

1771 Dr. Johnson; Works. 
Mme. D'Arblaifs Diary. VII., 357. 

Believe me, every man has his secret sorrows 
which the world knows not ; and oftentimes we 
call a man cold when he is only sad. 

1772 Longfellow: Hyperion, Bk. iii., Ch. 4. 

Sorrow, the great idealizer. 

1773 Lowell: Among My Books. Spenser. 



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Though sorrow must come, where is the ad- 
vantage of rushing to meet it? It will be time 
enough to grieve when it comes ; meanwhile hope 
for better things. 

1774 Seneca: EpistoUz, xiii., I". 

Affliction ma}' one clay smile again ; and till 
then, sit thee down, sorrow ! 

1775 Shaks. : Loves L. Lost, Act i,, Sc. 1. 

Soul. 

The soul is one with its faith. 

1776 C. A. Bartol: Radical Problems. 

Materialism. 

Everywhere the human soul stands between a 
hemisphere of light and another of darkness ; on 
the confines of two everlasting hostile empires, 
Necessity and Free Will. 

1777 Carlyle : Essays. Goethe's Works. 

(Foreign Review. No. ii. 1828.) 

The human soul, being an offshoot of the divine 
mind, can be compared with nothing else, if it be 
not irreverent to say so, than with God himself. 

1778 Cicero : Tusculanm Disptdatianes, 

v.. 38. 
The one thing in the world of value is the 
active soul. 

1779 Emerson : Misce lla n 

The American Schoi 

The soul never grows old. 

1780 Longfellow: Hyperion, Bk. iv., Ch. 9. 

Soul, thou hast much goods laid up for many 
years; take thine ease, eat, drink, and he merry. 

1781 New Testament : Luke xii. 19. 



254 DICTIONARY OF PROSE QUOTATIONS. 

My lord, this is a poor mad soul : . . . and the 
truth is. poverty hath distracted her. 

1782 Shaks. : 2 Henry IV.. Act ii., Sc. 1. 

Sound. 

The oak roars when a high wind wrestles with 
it : the beech shrieks : the elm sends forth a long, 
deep groan : the ash pours out moans of thrilling- 
anguish. Thomas Starr King: 

1783 The JVh ite Hills . Th e Pern ige w asset Va lley . 

Speech. 

All speech, even the commonest speech, has 
something of song in it. 

1784: Carlyle : Heroes and Hero Worship. 

The Hero as Poet. 

Speech that leads not to action, still more that 
hinders it. is a nuisance on the earth. 

1785 Carlyle: Thomas Carlyle, 
First Forty Tears, by Frov.de. Vol. i., Ch. 18. 

The true use of speech is.not so much to express 
our wants as to conceal them. 

1786 Goldswith: The Bee, Oct. 30, 1759. 

I would be loath to cast away my speech ; for, 
besides that it is excellently well penn'd, I have 
taken great pains to con it. 

1787 Shaks. : Tic. Xight, Act i.. Sc. 5. 

To me no speech that profits soundeth ill. 

1788 Sophocles: Electro.. 61. 

Spelling. 

Take care that you never spell a word wrong. 
Always before you write a word, consider how it 
is spelled, and. if you do not remember it. turn to 



DICTIONARY OF PROSE QUOTATIONS. 255 

a dictionary. It produces great praise to a lady 
to spell well. Thomas Jefferson : 

1789 LetUr to Martha Jefferson, 1783. 

Spirits. 

I believe there is a supernatural and spiritual 
world, in which human spirits, both good and bad, 
live in a state of consciousness. I believe that 
any of these spirits may, according to the order of 
God, in the laws of their place of residence, have 
intercourse with this world, and become visible to 
mortals. Dr. Adam Clarke : Commentary, 

1790 Vol. ii., p. 299. 

Spoils. 

They see nothing wrong in the rule that to the 
victors belong the spoils of the enemy. 

1791 William L. Marcy: Speech in the 

United States Senate, January, 1832. 

Spring. 

What delights us in the spring is more a sensa- 
tion than an appearance, more a hope than any 
visible reality. There is something in the softness 
of the air, in the lengthening of the days, in the 
very sounds and odors of the sweet time, that 
caresses us and consoles us after the rigorous 
weeks of winter. Hamkrton : 

1792 The Sylvan Year. March. 

Stars. 

The chambers of the East are opened in every 
Land, and the sun comes forth to sow the earth 
with orient pearl. Night, the ancient mother, 
follows him with her diadem of stars. . . . 
Bright creatures ! how they gleam like spirits 



256 DICTIONARY OF PROSE QUOTATIONS. 

through the shadows of innumerable eyes from 
their thrones in the boundless depths of heaven. 

1793 Carlyle : Thomas Carlyle, 
First Forty Years, by Froude. Vol. i., Ch. 17. 

A star for every State, and a State for ever)' 
star. Robert C. Wixthrop : Address on 

1794 Boston Common in 1862. 

Statecraft. 

A sceptre once put in the hand, the grip is in- 
stinctive ; and he who is firmly seated in authority 
soon learns to think security, and not progress, 
the highest lesson of statecraft. From the sum- 
mit of power men no longer turn their eyes up* 
ward, but begin to look about them. Aspiration 
sees only one side of every question; possession, 
many. James Russell Lowell : Among My 

1795 Books . New England Two Centuries Ago . 

Statesmanship. 

I do not depreciate statesmanship. It requires 
great ability to found states and governments, but 
only common talent to carry them on. It took 
Fulton and Watt to create the steam-engine ; but 
a very ordinary man can engineer a train from 
Boston to Albany. 

1796 Wendell Phillips : Speeches, 
Lectures, and Letters. Lincoln's Election. 

Studies. 

Studies serve for delight, for ornament, and for 
ability. Their chief use for delight, is in private- 
ness and retiring ; for ornament, is in discourse ; 
and for ability, is in the judgment and disposition 
of business ; for expert men can execute, and per- 
haps, judge of particulars, one by one ; but the 



DICTIONARY OF PROSE QUOTATIONS. 257 

general counsels, and the plots and marshalling- of 
affairs, come best from those that are learned. 

1797 Bacon: Essays. Of Studies. 

Stupidity, 

For a truth, Stupidity is strong, most strong. 
As the Poet Schiller sings: "Against Stupidity 
the very gods fight un victorious." There is in it 
an opulence of murky stagnancy, an inexhausti- 
bility, a calm infinitude, which will bailie even the 
gods, — which will say calmly, " Yes, try all 
your lightnings here ; see whether my dark belly 
cannot hold them ! " 

1798 Carlyle: Oliver Cromwell's 

Letters and Sjieeches, Ch. 1. 
Style. 

Style is what gives value and currency to 
thought. Amiel: Journal, Introduction. 

1799 (Mrs. Humphrey Ward, Translator.) 

Style, after all, rather than thought, is the im- 
mortal tiling in literature. 

1800 Alexander Smith : Dreamthorp. 

On the Writing of Essays. 

Sublimity. 

One stop above the sublime makes the ridicu- 
lous ; and one step above the ridiculous makes the 
sublime again. Thomas Paine: 

1801 Age of Reason , Pt. ii. 

Submission. 

No man is good for anything who has not 
learned the easy, prompt, cheerful submission of 
his will to rightful authority. 

1802 Washington Gladden: Things New 

and Old. II. Good Gifts to our Children. 



25S DICTIONARY OF PROSE QUOTATIONS. 

Success. 

Success is sweet : the sweeter if long delayed 
and attained through manifold struggles and 
defeats. A. Bronson Alcott : 

1803 Table Talk. III. Pursuits. Misfortune. 

Success is the child of Audacity. 

1804 Disraeli (Earl of Beaconsfield) : 

Lskander, Ch. 4. 
In success be moderate. 

1805 Benjamin Franklin : Poor Biehard'sAl. 

Great success is a great temptation. 

1806 Theodore Parker: A Sermon of the 

Moral Dangers Incident to Prosperity. 

The secret of many a man's success in the world 
resides in his insight into the moods of men, and 
his tact in dealing with them. 

1807 Timothy Titcomb (J. G. Holland) : 
Lessons in Life. Moods and Freimes of Mind. 

Suffering. 

A great part of human suffering has its root in the 
nature of man, and not in that of his institutions. 

1808 Lowell: Democreiey and Other 
Aeldresses. Address, Meiy 10, 1884. 

Suicide. 

There is no refuge from confession but suicide ; 
and suicide is confession. 

1809 Daniel Webster : Argument on the 
Murder of Captain White, April 6, 1830. 

Summer. 

One swallow maketh not summer. 

1810 John Heywood : Proverbes, Pt. ii., Ch. 5. 



DICTIONARY OF PROSE QUOTATIONS. 259 

Sun. 

The sun, which passeth through pollutions and 
itself remains as pure as before. 

1811 Bacon: Advancement of Learning . 

Sunday. 

Sunday is the common people's great liberty- 
day, and they are bound to see to it that work 
does not come into it. 

1812 Henry Ward Beecher: 
Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit. 

The Sunday is the core of our civilization, dedi- 
cated to thought and reverence. 

181B Emerson : Lectures and Biograp)hical 

Sketches. Character. 

Sunlight. 

Sunlight is like the breath of life to the pomp 
of autumn. Hawthorne : 

1814 American Note-Nooks. Brook Farm. 

Sunrise. 

And lo! in a flash of crimson splendor, with 
blazing scarlet clouds running before his chariot, 
and heralding his majestic approach, God's sun 
rises upon the world. Thackeray : 

1815 The Kickleburys on the Rhine. 

Sunset. 

That hour of the day when, face to face, the 
rising moon beholds the setting sun. 

1816 Longfellow: Hyperion, Bk. ii., Ch. 10. 

Superfluity. 

Superfluity comes sooner by white hairs, by 
competency lives longer. 

1817 Siiaks. : M. of Venice, Act i., Sc. 2. 



260 DICTIONARY OF PROSE QUOTATIONS. 

Superiority. 

The faults of the superior man are like the 
eclipses of the sun and moon. He has his faults, 
and all men see them ; he changes, and all men 
look up to him. Confucius : 

1818 Analects, Bk. xix., Ch. 21. (Legge, Tr.) 

Superstition. 

There is a superstition in avoiding superstition, 
when men think to do best if they go farthest from 
the superstition formerly received ; therefore care 
would be had that (as it fareth in ill purgings) 
the good be not taken away with the bad, which 
commonly is done when the people is the reformer. 

1819 Bacon : Essays. Of Superstition. 

The master of superstition is the people. And 
in all superstition, wise men follow fools. 

1820 Bacon : Ornamenta Rationalia. 

Superstition is the religion of feeble minds. 

1821 Burke: Reflections on the Revolution 

in France. 

If modern superstition disturb thee, be thankful 
it is not Indian and barbarian, that they are not 
human sacrifices, that they are not Druids. 

1822 Shaftesbury (Anthony, 3d Earl) : 
The Philosophical Regimen. Deity, p. 29. 

Surrender. 

No other terms than unconditional and imme- 
diate surrender. I propose to move immediately 
upon your works. Ulysses S. Grant: 

1823 To Gen. S. B. Buckner, 
Fort Donelson, Feb. 16, 1862. 



DICTIONARY OF PROSE QUOTATIONS. 261 

Suspicion. 

Suspicions that the mind of itself gathers, are 
but buzzes; but suspicions that are artificially 
nourished, and put into men's heads by the tales 
and whisperings of others, have stings. . 

1824 Bacon: Essays. Of Suspicion. 

Suspicion is very often a useless pain. 

1825 Dr. Johnson: 
BoswelVs Life of Johnson. III. 135. 

Swearing. 

And then a whoreson jackanapes must take me 
up for swearing : as if I borrowed mine oaths of 
him, and might not spend them at my pleasure. 

1826 Shaks. : Cymbeline, Actii., Sc. 1. 

Sympathy, 

The sympathy of sorrow is stronger than the 
sympathy of prosperity. 

1827 Disraeli (Earl of Beaconsfield) : 

Endymion, Ch. 16. 

Sympathetic people are often uncommunicative 
about themselves ; they give back reflected images 
which hide their own depths. 

1828 George Eliot: Leaves from a Note- 

Book. Birth of Tolerance. 
We are governed by sympathy; and the extent 
of our sympathy is determined by that of our 
sensibility. 

1829 Hazlitt: Characteristics. No. 410. 

There is abundance in this world of that one- 
sided sympathy which springs from a parti pris, 

but that which is many-sided and perfectly just is 
very unusual. Ouida : 

1830 Critical Studies. L'bnperieuse Bonte. 
2189 68 



262 DICTIONARY 05 PROSE JUOTATIOHS. 

The secret of language is the secret of sympathy, 
and its full charm is possible only to the gentle. 
1831 Buskts" : Lectures on Art. Lecture iii. 



T. 

Table-Talk 

Table talk, to be perfect, shonld be sincere 
ont bigotry, differing without discord, sc retimes 
grave, always agreeable, touching on deep points. 
Iwelli g m jst d - - nable ones, and letting 

aybody speak and be hea: 

IS a Leigh Htm : Table Talk. 

Taciturnity. 

I was once taken np for Jesuit for no other 
reason than niv profound taciturnity. 

16:: I ~ Steele: Tht Sj - . So. 6. 

Tact. 

Without tad an learn nothing. 

beaches when : silent. Inquirers who 

always inqniring never learn anythh:_ 

1834 Disraeli [Earl o* Bk :») : 

End\ mion, Ch. 61. 
Tainting : 

Infection spreadeth upon that which is sc Jid. 
and tainteth it. 

> r Bacon: Essays. Of Envy. 

Therefore, who taints his soul may be said to 
throw dirt in G - : 

ls3<: Howell : Letters, iv. 

Tale 

We spend our years : - a tale that is :id. 
1837 Old Testament: Psal? 



DICTIONARY OF PROSE QUOTATIONS. 263 

Mark now, how a plain tale shall put 3*011 down. 

1838 Shaks. : 1 Henry IV., Act ii., Sc. 4. 

With a tale forsooth he cometh unto you, with 
a tale which holdeth children from play, and old 
men from the chimney corner. 

1839 Sir Philip Sidney: Apology for Poetry . 

Talent. 

Talent is that which is in a man's power. 
1810 Lowell: Among My Books. 

Boussean and the Sentimentalists. 

Talk, Talkers, Talking 

She is charming to talk to — full of wisdom — 

o 

ripe in judgment — rich in information. 

1841 Charlotte Bronte : Shirley, Ch. 35. 

Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, 
abstains from giving us wordy evidence of the 
fact. 

1812 George Eliot- Theophrastus Such, Ch. 6. 

No one would talk much in society if he only 
knew how often he misunderstands others. 

1843 Goethe : Elective Affinities, Pt. ii., Ch. -1. 

Talk to me is only spading up the ground for 
rops of thought. I can't answer for what will 
-urn up. Holmes : 

1SU The Professor at the Breakfast Table, i. 

AVe seldom repent talking too little, but very 
often talking too much. 

1845 La Bruy&re: Characters. Of Man. 

(Uowe, Translator ) 



264 DICTIONARY OF PROSE QUOTATIONS. 

Long talking begets short hearing, for people 
go away. 

1846 Bichter : Levana. Sixth Fragment, 

Ch. 4, Sec. 120. 

A gentleman, nurse, that loves- to hear himself 
talk ; and will speak more in a minute, than he 
will stand to in a month. 

1847 Shaks. : Rom. and Jul., Act ii., Sc. 4. 

A good old man, sir ; he will be talking. 

1848 Shaks. : Much Ado, Act iii., Sc. 5. 

If they were but a week married they would 
talk themselves mad. 

1849 Shaks. : Much Ado, Act ii., Sc. 1. 

There are alwa} T s two to a talk, giving and 
taking, comparing experience and according con- 
clusions. Robert Louis Stevenson: 

1850 Talks and Talkers, Ch. 1. 

Talkativeness. 

Talkativeness produces many disasters, but in 
silence there is safety. 

1851 Apollonius: (Stobceus, Florilegium, 

xxxvi., 28). 

I will talk of things heavenly, or things 
earthly; things moral, or things evangelical; 
things sacred, or things profane ; things past, or 
things to come; things foreign, or things at 
home; tilings more essential, or things circum- 
stantial ; provided that all be done to our profit. 

1852 John Bunyan: Pilgrimls Progress. 

Whom the disease of talking still once pos- 
sesseth, he can never hold his peace. Nay, rather 



DICTIONARY OF PROSE QUOTATIONS. 265 

than he will not discourse he will hire men to 
hear him. 

1853 BenJonson: Timber; or, D 

Made upon Men and Matter. 

Tapering. 

Those who seek to thrive merely by falsehood 
and cunning taper down at last to nothing. 

1854 James Freeman Clarke: 

ilf-Cutture, p. 27 
Taste. 

Good taste consists first upon fitness. 

1855 George William Curtis: 

The Potiphar Papers. I. Our Best Society. 
Taste cannot be controlled by law. 
18" Thomas Jefferson : 

Xotes on a M Unit, 1784. 

Taste is not only a part and an index of mor- 
ality : — it is the ONLY morality. 

1857 Rusejn: Crown of J\ . ii. 

Traffic, 54. 
Good taste cannot supply the place of genius in 
literature, for the best proof of taste, when there 
is no genius, would be. not to write at all. 

1858 Mme. i>e Stael : Germany. Pt. ii.. 
Ch. 14. (Wight's revision of Murray's ed.) 

Taverns. 

He who has not been at a tavern knows not 
what a paradise it is. holy tavern ! O miracu- 
lous tavern ! — holv, because no carking 
are there, nor weariness, nor pain : and miracu- 
lous, because of the spits, which of themsel - 
turn round and round ! 

1859 Aretino: H y Longfellow, 

' Bk. iii., Ch. 2. 



266 DICTIONARY OF PROSE QUOTATIONS. 

Taxation. 

Preserve inviolate the fundamental principle, 
that the people are not to be taxed but by repre- 
sentatives chosen immediately by themselves. 

1860 Thomas Jefferson : 
Letter to James Madison, 1787. 

Tea. 

Thank God for tea ! What would the world do 
without tea ? — how did it exist ? I am glad I was 
not born before tea. 

1861 Sydney Smith: 

Recipe for Salad, p. 383. 

Teaching. 

There is no teaching until the pupil is brought 
into the same state or principle in which you are ; 
a transfusion takes place ; he is you, and you are 
he ; there is a teaching ; and by no unfriendly 
chance or bad company can he ever quite lose the 
benefit. 

1862 Emerson: Essays. Spiritual Laws. 

It is a good divine that follows his own instruc- 
tions ; I can easier teach twenty what were good 
to be done, than to be one of the twenty to follow 
mine own teachings. 

1863 Shaks. : M. of Venice, Act i., Sc. 2. 

Tears. 

Sympathizing and selfish people are alike given 
to tears. 

1864 Leigh Hunt : Table Talk. Tears. 

Tears are often to be found where there is 
little sorrow, and the deepest sorrow without any 
tears. Dr ; Johnson: 

1865 Works. IX. 301. (Oxford edition, 1825.) 



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DICTIONARY 05 PROS PAT] rS 

sia, do not dwell long upon the 

cheeks of yonth. Pwain drops easily from the bud. 

ts a the bosoin of the inaturer £ and 

iks down that one only which hath lived its 

day. 

1866 Lakdob _ 

XXVIII. I . 

If you have tears, prepare to shed them n 

1867 Shaks. : Jul. Hi., Sc i . 

Hence were those rears, and hence all that 
compassion. 

1868 Terence: Andn , A:::.. Sc. 1. 

Temper. 

Men are certainly as much given to ill temper 
as women : and. if :" u less inclined to tears, 
they make it up in sulks, which are just as bad. 

1869 >mas Wkntwobth Higgins 

Alphabet. Tempt 

Tlie brain may devise laws for the blood : but a 
hot temper lea j - : old decree: such a hai 
is madness, the youth, to skip o'er the roe-_— : 
good counsel, the cripple. 

187 Shaks. : 31. oj Vi Ael L, S 

Temperance. 

ranee i thing is :~quisite for hap- 

ping-- 

L871 B. R. Haydon: : \ Talk. 

Temptations. 

ind out what your temptat: - . and you 
will find out largely what yon arc yourself. 
1872 Henry Ward Beecher: 

Plymouth Pulpit. 



26S DICTIONARY OF PROSE QUOTATIONS. 

Tenderness. 

Want of : -::.-— is want of pans, and is no 
less a proof of stupidity than depravity. 

1873 Dr. pJohnsox : B 'os well's Life of Johnsc 

II. 122. {George Birkbeck B tor.) 

Terror, 

No divine terror will ever be found in the work 
of the man who wastes a .-olossal strength in 
elaborating toys ; : i .. first lesson that terror is 
sent to teach us is, the value of the human soul. 
and the shortness of mortal time. 

1874: Ruskot: The Sic 

The Fall, Ch. 3, See. 4: : ». 
Teutonism. 

I find that the life .: nations is only crowned 
with success so far as they have Teuton blood in 
their veins, and so long as they preserve the char- 
acteristics of that race. 

1875 Bismarck: ( is with 
Bitmar '- , ' E Poschinger. 

Thankfulness. 

Beggar that I am. I am even poor in thanks. 

1876 Shaks. : Hamlet, Act ii.. Sc. 2. 

Theft. 

Whether we force the man's property from him 
by pinching his stomach, or pinching his lingers. 
makes some difference anatomically: morally, 
none whatsoever. Ruskin : 

1877 The Two Paths. Lecture v. Sec. 3. 1. 

Theologians. 

I am not speaking against learned and approved 
professors of theology, for I look up to them with 
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DICTIONARY OF PROS?: QUOTATIONS. 269 

haughty herd of theologians who think all the 
writings of all author- are worth nothing compared 
to themselves. Desiderius Erasmus: 

1878 Desiderius Erasmus of Rotterdam, 

by Ephraim Emerton. 
Thinkers. 

In every epoch of the world, the great event, 
parent of all others, is it not the arrival of a 
Thinker in the world ? 

1879 Carlyle : Heroes and Hero Worship. 

The Hero as Divinity. 

Beware when the great God lets loose a thinker 
on this planet. 

1880 Emerson: Essays. Circles. 

The greater part of mankind may be divided 
into two classes: that of shallow thinkers who fail 
short of the truth : and that of abstruse thinkers 
who ffo bevond it, Hume : 

1881 Essays. XXIII. Of Commerce. 

Thoreau. 

During his life [Thoreau's] I imagine he would 
have refused to notice anything so fatiguing as an 
ordinary German woman, and never would have 
deigned discourse to me on the themes he loved 
best; but now his spirit belongs to me, and all he 
thought, and believed, and felt, and he talks as 
much and as intimately to me here in my solitude 
as ever he did to his dearest friends years ago in 
Concord. Mary A. B. Aknim (Grafix Von) : 

1882 The Solitary Summer. May. 

Thoroughness. 

Whatever is worth doing at all is worth doing 
well. Lord Chesterfield : 

1883 Letters to His Son. March 10, 1740. 



270 DICTIONARY OF PROSE QUOTATIONS. 

Slack work is, alas ! so common in a country 
which is not even half begun, far less half finished, 
that a man who sets himself to thorough work, 
whether it be in finishing wagons or in collecting 
taxes, will find he is every hour arousing the sur- 
prise of those he works with. 

1884 Edward E. Hale : Up>s and Downs, 

Ch. 11, 
Thought. 

No thought is beautiful which is not just, and 
no thought can be just which is not founded on 
truth. 

1885 Addison : The Spectator. No. 523. 

Thought is parent of the deed. 

1886 Carlyle : Essays. Death of Goethe. 

(Foreign Revieiv, No. ii. 1828.) 

One thought includes all thought, in the sense 
that a grain of sand includes the universe. 

1887 Coleridge: Table Talk. 
Additional Table Talk. Thought. 

The thinker is nearer to the source of thought 
than aught beside. Man stands nearest to God. 

1888 Orville Dewey : On the Validity of 
our Knowledge of God. Old and New, Vol. ii. 

Thought is the property of him who can enter- 
tain it, and of him who can adequately place it. 

1889 Emerson : Representative Men. 

Shakespeare. 

If ill thoughts at any time enter into the mind 
of a good man, he doth not roll them under his 
tongue as a sweet morsel. 

1890 Matthew Henry : Commentaries. 
Psalm Ixxviii., and Sermon on Uncleanness. 



DICTIONARY OF PROSE QUOTATIONS. 271 

The material of thought re-acts upon the thought 
itself. Lowell: Democracy and Other 

1891 Addresses. Address, Chelsea, Mass. 

Many thoughts are so dependent upon the lan- 
guage in which they are clothed that they would 
lose half their beauty if otherwise expressed. 

1892 Ruskin: Modern Painters, Pt. i., Sec. 1. 

A woman's thought runs before her actions. 

1893 Shaks. : As You Like It, Act iv., Sc. 1. 
Mind is the great lever of all things ; human 

thought is the process by which human ends are 
alternately answered. Daniel Webster: 

1894 Address, Charlestown, Mass., 1825. 

Thunder. 

They will not let my play run ; and yet they 
steal my thunder. John Dennis : 

1895 Biograjyhia Brilannica, Vol. v., p. 103. 

Tide. 

"People can't die, along the coast," said Mr. 
Peggotty. '■- except when the tide's pretty nigh out. 
They can't be born, unless it's pretty nigh in — 
not properly born, till Hood. He's a going out 
with the tide. It's ebb at half arter three, slack 
water half-an-hour. If he lives till it turns, he'll 
hold his own till past the flood, and go out with 
the next tide." . . . And, it being low water, he 
went out with the tide. 

1896 Dickens: David Copperfield, Ch. 30. 

Time. 

Time, O my friend, is money! Time wasted 
can never conduce to money well managed. 

1897 Bulwer-Lytton : Caxtoniana. 
Essay xxi. On the Management of Money. 



272 DICTIONARY J PROSE JUOTATIOIffS- 

Time! Time it brings forth and de- 
vours And the roaring flood ©i existence rushes 

on : i ever - i-iilar, forever changing 

189$ Carlylz Thy::: . . " " _-". - 

1 F Vol. ii., Ch. 17. 

When a thought : Plato becomes a thought to 

me. — when a truth that fired the soul of Pindar 

fixes mine, time is nomo:: 

1- Emersoh. Essays. History. 

But dost thou love life ? then do not squander 
time, for that is the stall life k _iade of. 

190C Benxamdi Fraxrltx : Poor Richard AI 

Time flies "—: us. ::u: le^Tes ::> sh: : ;-,- ' ehir 

1901 Hawtmorxe T keMt Fjun, Ch.2±. 

What is Time 7 he shadow on the dial, the 
striking : the lock, the running of the sand. — 

day and night, summer and winter, months, years, 
: :: -. —these are but arbitrary and outward 
signs, the measure of Time, not Time itself. 
Time is the life of the soul. 

1902 1 :zi: Bypi i, Bk. ii., Ch. 6. 

T:-.us :_t "„;_:_;_ ;: ;i— ~ ::riu^s in his 

1 Shaks T N Act Se. 1. 

Time passes, Tiine the consoler, Time the" 
anodyne. Xha : :zi ^ 

1904 Sketches and Travels in London. 

Toad. 

The toad at once establishes the most intimate 

relations with the bug. H is . -ore to see 

such unity among th<r I r animals. The diffi- 

> make the toad stay and watch the hill. 



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If yon know tout toad it is all right. If von do 
not. yon ninst bnild a tight fence ronnd the plants, 
which the toad cannot jnmp over. 

19 LAKLES DUDOLKT WaSHKB : 

My Summer in a Garden. Third Week. 

To-day. 

One to-day is worth two to-mony w a 

1906 Benjamin" Yr anextv : Poor Biehara _ 

Toil, says the proverb, is the sire of fame. 

1907 Euripides: Licymnius. Fragment. ^"~ 

Toleration. 

How shall we ever learn toleration for what 
do not believe? The last lesson a man ever 
learns is. that liberty of thonght and speech is the 
right for all mankind : that the man who denies 
ay article of onr creed is to be allowed to 
preach jnst as often and jnst as lond as we our- 
selves klx Phuxips: 
1909 Speeches, Lectures* and I 

The Boston Mob. 

1 scorn and scont the word " toleration: " it is 
an insolent term. No man. properly speak; _ 
tolerates another. I do not tolerate ■ Catholic, 
neither does he tolerate me. We are equal, and 
acknowledge each other's right : that is the 
rect statement. 

V.'vypELL PhOLLIPS Sj 

and Letters. Darnel O'Connell. 
To-morrow. 

•• In every to-day walks a to-niony 
have a right to look to yon. yonng men. to tell ns 
what is the to-morrow that walks in to-day. N : 



2,4 DICTIONARY OF PROSE QUOTATIONS. 

: ;reate a to-morrow our of your own imaginings, 

nor to insist that we shall always live in to-day : 
but to rind the to-mon to-day, and to 

h as how to rind it for >urseTv is. 

19K Lymax Abbott: 1 " "-. o < L .;■:. 

Tongue. 

Keep a guard on your tongue, est over 

the wine. 

1911 Chilo: (Li-;>.>; >/> La*: tins. i.. 3, 2, 
Man's chiefest treasure is a sparing tongs 

1912 Hesiod: ^' : ^: : , and 1>\ >. 719. 

Tools. 

There is no jesting with edge tc ids 

1912 Bkaumont a\d Fletcher: 

Hit Li '.'■: French La '. Act iv., Sc. 7. 
Trade. 

de is a social a : 

1914 Jonx Stuart Mux: 

On Liberty . Apph 

Tradition. 

The effigies and splendors :: n .are not 

meant te - the energies or the development 

gorons and various nation. They are not 
meant be hoi I in mortmain the proper territory of 
human intelligence and righte : as . - i. They 

live and teach their lessons in our annals. 
have their own worshipj srs and their own shrin 
but the earth is not theirs nor the fulness there 

1915 Loud Rosjebert: Address to the 

St: ~ : ::>.":: A: : - "-. . A. ; •: l s ^ 
Traitors. 

The man who right- against his own eovm:: 
nev ro. Victob Hugo: 

ety-Three, PL i i. 9 

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An arrant traitor as any's in the universal 'odd, 
or in France, or in England ! 

1917 Shaks. : Henry V., Act iv., Sc. B. 

Tranquillity. 

Tranquillity of mind depends much on ourselves. 
and greatly on due reflection ;i how much pain 
have cost us the evils which have never happened.** 

1918 Thomas Jefferson: 
Letter to William Short. 1814. 

Translations. 

Something must be lost in all transfusion, that 
is, in all translations : but the sense will remain, 
which would otherwise be lost, or at least maimed, 
when it is scarce intelligible, and that but to a 
few. 

1919 Drydex: Fables. Preface. 

A translator is to be like his author : it is not 
his business to excel him. 

1920 Dr. Johnson: Lives of the Poets. 

Travel. 

Travelling is no fool's errand to him who carries 
his eves and itinerary along with him. 

1921 A. Bronson Alcott: Table Talk. 

II. Enterprise. Travelling. 

Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of educa- 
tion ; in the elder, a part of experience. He that 
travelleth into a country, before he hath some 
entrance into the language, goeth to school, and 
not to travel. 

1922 Bacon: Essays. Of Travel. 



276 DICTIONARY OF PROSE QUOTATIONS. 

Travellers. 

Every traveller has a home of his own, and he 
learns to appreciate it the more from his wander- 
ing. 

1923 Dickens : Speeches, Literary and Social. 

Travellers must be content. 

1924 Shaks. : As You Like It, Act ii. ? Sc. 4. 

Treason. 

Fellowship in treason is a bad ground of con- 
fidence. Burke : Remarks on the 

1925 Policy of the Allies with Respect to France. 

Csesar had his Brutus — Charles the First, his 
Cromwell — and George the Third — (" Treason ! " 
cried the Speaker) — may profit by their example. 
If this be treason, make the most of it. 

1926 Patrick Henry: Speech, Virginia 

House of Burgesses, May, 1765. 
Trees. 

What are these maples and beeches and birches 
but odes and idyls and madrigals ? What are 
these pines and firs and spruces but holy hymns, 
too solemn for the many-hued raiment of their 
gay, deciduous neighbors ? 

1927 Holmes: Extract from Letter. 

When we plant a tree, we are doing what we 
can to make our planet a more wholesome and 
happier dwelling-place for those who come after 
us if not for ourselves. 

1928 Holmes : Extract from Letter. 

Trees assume, on the approach of winter, an air 
of anguish, an accent of desolation, which are 



DICTIONARY OF PROSE QUOTATIONS. 277 

thrilling. One would say that all these leaves 
were struggling before they fall and die. 

1929 Joseph Roux : Meditations of a Parish 

Priest. (Hapgood, Translator.) 

Tribute. 

Millions for defence, but not one cent for tribute. 

1930 Charles Colesworth Ptxckxey : 
When Ambassdor to the French Republic. 

Trickery. 

A trick is at the best but a mean thing. 

1931 Le Sage: Gil Bias, Bk, v., Ch. 1. 

( Smollett, Translator.) 

I know a trick worth two of that. 

1932 Shaks. : 1 Henry IV., Act ii., Sc. 1. 

Trifles. 

Those who busy themselves about ridiculous 
trifles become ridiculous when they undertake 
serious business. 

1933 Cato Major. (Plutarch, Catonis 

Apophthegmata, 18.) (199, a.) 

AVe must not stand upon trifles. 

1934 Cervantes : Don Quixote, Pt. i., Ch. 30. 

(Jarvis, Translator .) 

Troubles. 

There are the three ways in which people take 
trouble. They forget them; they worry over 
them ; and they bear them with a peaceful and 
serene spirit. This last was Christ's peace. lie 
came into the world in order that he might live in 
the midst of trouble. He lived in peace, and, 
dying, he said, " My peace. I give unto you."' 

1935 Lyman Abbott: Problems of L 



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The troubles which have come upon us always 
seem more serious than those which are only 
threatening. 

1936 Livy: Histories, iii., 39. 

Trustfulness. 

We are inclined to believe those whom we do 
not know, because they have never deceived us. 

1937 Dr. Johnson: The Idler. No. 80= 

Truth. 

We are not to judge of a truth beforehand by 
the fruit which we think it will produce. It is the 
truth which makes free, not any kind of error. It 
is the truth which sanctifies men, not any kind of 
falsehood. All truth is safe. 

1938 Lyman Abbott: Problems of Life. 

Truth illuminates and gives joy ; and it is by 
the bond of joy, not of pleasure, that men's spirits 
are indissolubly held. Matthew Arnold : 

1939 Essays on Criticism. Joubcrt. 

No pleasure is comparable to the standing upon 
the vantage-ground of truth. 

1940 Bacon: Essays. Of Truth. 

The genuine essence of truth never dies. 

1941 Carlyle: Heroes and Hero Worship. 

The Hero as Prophet. 

The triumphs of truth are the most glorious, 
chiefly because they are the most bloodless of all 
victories, deriving their highest lustre from the 
number of the saved, not of the slain. 

1942 Colton: Lacon. 

Truth is always present ; it only needs to lift 
the iron lids of the mind's eye to read its oracles. 

1943 Emerson : Letters and Social Aims, 



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Truth alone can stand strict and stern investiga- 
tion, and rejoices to come to the light. 

1944 Moses Harvey: 

Lecture? on Egypt and its Monuments. 1 

Truth is of importance only as it ministers to 
life, and as it is the only thing that can thus 
minister. 

1945 Mark Hopkins : Teachings and Counsels. 
Truth, such as is necessary to the regulation of 

life, is always found where it is honestly sought. 

1946 Dr. Johnson: Basselas, Ch. 11. 

Nothing is so grand as truth, nothing so forci- 
ble, nothing so novel. 

1947 Landor : Imaginary Conversations. 

Epictetus and \ 

To love truth for truth's sake, is the principal 
part of human perfection in this world, and the 
seed-plot of all other virtues. John Locke: 

1948 Letter to Anthony Collins, E 

Scientific truth is marvellous, but moral truth 
is divine ; and whoever breathes its air and walks 
by its light has found the lost paradise. 

1949 Horace Mann: Lecture before Boston 

Mercantile Lib. Asso., 1849. 

Truth is as impossible to be soiled by any out- 
ward touch as the sunbeam. Milton : 

1950 The Doctrine and Discip 

Childhood often holds a truth with its feeble 
fingers, which the grasp of manhood cannot re- 
tain, — which it is the pride of utmost age to 
recover. 

1951 Ruskin: Modern Painters. P 

(Second edition.) 



280 DICTIONARY OF PROSE QUOTATIONS. 

Tyranny. 

Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny. 

1952 Burke : Speech, Bristol, previous to the 

Election, 1780. 

There is no tyranny so despotic as that of pub- 
lic opinion among a free people. 

1953 Donn Piatt: Memories of the Men 

who Saved the Union. Abraham Lincoln. 

Where law ends, tyranny begins. 

1954 William Pitt (Earl of Chatham) : 

Speech, Jan. 9, 1770. Case of Wilkes. 
When the will of man is raised above law, it is 
always tyranny and despotism, whether it is the 
will of a bashaw or of bastard patriots. 

1955 Xoah Webster: Essays. The Times. 

(American Men of Letters.) 
Tyrants. 

Kings will be tyrants from policy, when sub- 
jects are rebels from principle. 

1956 Burke: Reflections on the Rev. in France. 

Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God. 

1957 Lnscription on a Cannon near ivhich the 
ashes of Pres. John Braclshaw were lodged, 
on top of hill near Martha Bay in Jamaica. 

The sovereign is called a tyrant who knows no 
law but his caprice. 

1958 Voltaire: A Philosophical Dictionary . 

Tyranny. 

U. 

Ugliness. 

He was jest the cross est, ugliest critter that 
ever ye see, and he was ugly jest for the sake o 1 
ugliness. Harriet Beecher Stowe : 

1959 Oldtown Papers, p. 196. 



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Ultramontane, Ultramontanism. 

If the Ultramontanes force their way to the 
leadership among the Germans, I shall know 
beforehand that their aim is not for the union of 
the Germans, but for their separation and weak- 
ening. That is the object of the whole Ultramon- 
tane policy; it is democratic in France, republican 
in Italy, " social-Christian, " or, if more conven- 
ient, social democratic in black, in Germany, 
feudal-Czech in Austria ; it will even become anti- 
Semitic, so that it may deceitfully introduce itself 
to the Jews as their saviour. 

1960 Bismarck: Conversations with Prince 
Bismarck, collected by Heinrich von Poschinger. 

To the Ultramontane, holding that the temporal 
welfare no less than the eternal salvation of men 
depends on submission to the Church, it is incred- 
ible that Church authority has but a transitory 
value. 

1961 Herbert Spexcer : Study of Sociology. 

Unbelief. 

Belief consists in accepting "the affirmations of 
the soul ; unbelief in denying them . 

1962 Emerson: Essays. Montaigne. 

Uncertain, Uncertainty. 

Man, with all his boasted titles and privileges, 
wanders about in uncertainty, does and undoes, 
and contradicts himself, throughout all the vari- 
ous scenes of thinking and living. 

1963 Bishop Atterbury : Sermons, II, xxiii. 

Uncharitableness. 

How unequal, how uncharitable, must it needs 
be, to impose that which his conscience cannot 



282 DICTIONARY OF PROSE QUOTATIONS., 

urge him to impose, upon him whose conscience 
forbids him to obey ! 

1964 Milton : True Religion. 

Understanding. 

A distinction has been made between acuteness 
and subtlety of understanding. This might be 
illustrated by saying that acuteness consists in 
taking up the points or solid atoms, subtlety in 
feeling the air of truth. 

1965 Hazlitt: Characteristics. Xo. 33. 

I have found you an aro'ument ; I am not 
obliged to find you an understanding, 

1966 Dr. Johnson: BoswelVs Life of Johnson, 

Vol. yiii., Ch. 9. 1784, 

Ungodliness. 

For the wrath of God is reyealed from heaven 
against all uno-odliness and imrio'hteousness of 
men, who hold the truth in unrighteousness. 

1967 Rew Testament: Romans i., 18. 

Union. The. 

This glorious Union shall not perish ! Precious 
legacy of our fathers, it shall go down honored and 
cherished to our children. Generations unborn 
shall enjoy its privileges as we have done ; and if 
we leave them poor in all besides, we will trans- 
mit to them the boundless wealth of its blessings ! 

1968 Edward Everett : Orations and 
Speeches. Union Meeting in Faneuil Hall. 

The Union of the States is indissoluble; the 
country is undivided and indivisible forever. 

1969 David Dudley Field : Speeches, 
Arguments, and Miscellaneous Papers. 



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Our Federal Union : it must be preserved. 

1970 Andrew Jackson: Benton's Thirty 

Years' 1 View. I. 148. 

Liberty and Union, now and forever, one and 
inseparable. Daniel Webster : 

1971 Speech, United States Senate, 1830. 

When my eyes shall be turned to behold for the 
last time the sun in heaven, may I not see him 
shining on the broken and dishonored fragments 
of a once glorious Union; on States dissevered, 
discordant, belligerent ; on a land rent with civil 
feuds, or drenched, it may be, in fraternal blood. 

1972 Daniel Webster : Speech, United 

States Senate, Jan. 26-27, 1830. 

United States. 

In estimating future events we must keep an eye 
on the United States of America, for they may 
develop into a danger to Europe in economic 
affairs, possibly also in others, at present wholly 
unexpected by most of us. In the future the one 
cannot be separated from the other. The war of 
the future is the economic war, the struggle for 
existence on a grand scale. May my successors 
always bear this in mind, and take care when this 
struggle comes that we are prepared for it ! 

1973 Bismarck : Conversations with Prince 
Bismarck, collected by Heinrich von Poschinger. 

I do believe we shall continue to grow, to mul- 
tiply, and prosper until we exhibit an association 
powerful, wise, and happy beyond what has yet 
been seen by men. Thomas Jefferson: 

1974 Letter to John Adams, 1812. 



284 DICTIONARY OF PROSE QUOTATIONS. 

Universe, The. 

The universe is a thought of God. 

1975 Schiller: Essays, JEsthetical and 

Philosophical. Letter iv. Julius to Raphael. 

If from the origin of the Universe we turn to its 
nature, the like insurmountable difficulties rise up 
before us on all sides — or rather, the same 
difficulties under new aspects. We find ourselves 
on the one hand obliged to make certain assump- 
tions ; and yet on the other hand we find these 
assumptions cannot be represented in thought. 

1976 Herbert Spencer: Synthetic 
Philosophy . First Principles, Ch. 2, Sec. 12. 

Unkindness. 

Come, we have a hot venison pasty to dinner ; 
come, gentlemen, I hope we shall drink down all 
unkindness. 

1977 Shaks. : Her. W. of TV., Act i., Sc. 1. 

Unrequited Attachment. 

Next to a requited attachment, one of the most 
convenient things that a young man can carry 
about with him at the beginning of his career, is 
an unrequited attachment. It makes him feel im- 
portant and business-like, and blase*, and cynical : 
and whenever he has a touch of liver, or suffers 
from want of exercise, he can mourn over his lost 
love, and be very happy in a tender, twilight 
fashion. Rudyard Kipling : Plain Tales 

1978 from the Hills. 

Uprightness. 

God hath made man upright ; but they have 
sought out many inventions. 

1979 Old Testament: Ecclesiastes vii. 29. 



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Usefulness. 

What a strange thing to defend the usefulness 
of the useful ! Can there be people so foolish as 
to deny the usefulness of that which is useful ? 
And furthermore, can there be people so foolish 
as to considei it their duty to defend the usefulness 
of the useful ? Tolstoi : 

1980 Essays, Letters, Miscellanies. 

Usury. 

Usury bringeth the treasure of the realm or 
state into a few hands : for the usurer being at 
certainties, and the others at uncertainties, at the 
end of the game most of the money will be in the 
box. 

1981 Bacon : Ornamenta Rationalia. 



V. 
Valor. 

Discretion, the best part of valor. 

1982 Beaumont and Fletcher : 
A King and No King, Act iv., Sc. 3. 

It is a brave act of valor to contemn death ; but 
where life is more terrible than death, it is then 
the truest valor to dare to live. 

1983 Sir Thomas Browne : 
Christian Morals, Pt. L, Sec. 44. 

True valor lies in the middle, between cow- 
ardice and rashness. Cervantes : Don Quixote, 

1984 Pt. ii., Ch. 4. (Jarvis, Translator.) 

The better part of valor is discretion; in the 
which better part I have saved my life. 

1985 Shaks. : 1 Henry IV., Act v., Sc. 4. 



286 DICTIONARY OF PROSE QUOTATIONS. 

My valor is certainly going ! it is sneaking off ! 
I feel it oozing out, as it were, at the palms of my 
hands . 

1986 Sheridan: The Rivals, Act v., Sc. 3. 

Vanity. 

The knowledge of thyself will preserve thee 
from vanity. Cervantes : Don Quixote, 

1987 Pt. ii., Ch. 43. (Jarvis, Translator.) 

Be extremely on your guard against vanity, the 
common failing of inexperienced youth ; but par- 
ticularly against that kind of vanity that dubs a 
man a coxcomb ; a character which, once acquired, 
is more indelible than that of priesthood. 

1988 Lord Chesterfield : Advice to 

His Son. Vanity. 

No man sympathizes with the sorrows of 
vanity. Dr. Johnson : Works. 

1989 VIII. 276. (Oxford edition, 1825.) 

False glory is the rock of vanity; it seduces 
men to affect esteem by things which they indeed 
possess, but which are frivolous, and which for a 
man to value himself on would be a scandalous 
error. La Bruyere : Characters. Of Man. 

1990 (Rowe, Translator.) 

Variety. 

But the eye, my dear madam, is agreeably re- 
freshed with the variety. Man is not a creature of 
pure reason — he must have his senses delight- 
fully appealed to. Charles Lamb : 

1991 Essays of Elia. Mrs. Battle on Whist. 



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Veneration. 

The veneration we have for many things, en- 
tirely proceeds from their being carefully con- 
cealed. Goldsmith : 

1992 Citizen of the World. Letter 53. 

Vengeance. 

Good Christians should never avenge injuries. 

1993 Cervantes: Don Quixote, Ft. ii., 

Ch, 11. (Jarvis, Translator.) 

Venus. 

Venus will not charm so much without her 
attendant Graces, as they will without her. 

1994 Lord Chesterfield : 
Letter to His Son, Nov. 18, 17-18. 

Vice. 

If vices were profitable, the virtuous man would 
be the sinner. Bacon : Moral and 

1995 Historical Works . OmamenlaRationalia. 

Vice itself lost half its evil by losing all its 
grossness. Burke: 

1996 Reflections on the Revolution in France. 

There are some faults so nearly allied to excel- 
lence that we can scarce weed out the vice without 
eradicating the virtue. Goldsmith: 

1997 The Good-Natured Man, Act i. 

Beware of the beginnings of vice. Do not de- 
lude yourself with the belief that it can be argued 
against in the presence of the exciting cause. 
Nothing but actual flight can save you. 

1998 B. R. Haydon: Table Talk. 



288 DICTIONARY OF PROSE QUOTATIONS. 

The same vices which are huge and insupport- 
able in others we do not feel in ourselves. 

1999 LaBruyere: Characters. 
Of Judgments, (Bowe, Translator.) 

Vicissitudes. 

A man used to vicissitudes is not easily dejected. 

2000 Dr. Johnson: Basselas, Ch. 12. 

Victory. 

He that seeketh victory over his nature, let him 
not set himself too great nor too small tasks ; for 
the first will make him dejected by often failing, 
and the second will make him a small proceeder, 
though by often prevailings. 

2001 Bacon: Essays. Of Nature in Men. 

I came, saw, and overcame. 

2002 Shaks. : 2 Henry IV., Act iv., Sc. 3. 

A victory is twice itself when the achiever 
brings home full numbers. 

2003 Shaks.: Much Ado, Acti., Sc. 1. 

Villany. 

The villany you teach me, I will execute, and it 
shall go hard but I will better the instruction. 

2004 Shaks. : M. of Venice, Act iii., Sc. 1. 

Virtue. 

It is not the business of virtue to extirpate the 
affections of the mind, but to regulate them. 

2005 Addison: The Spectator. No. 494. 

Virtue is like a rich stone, best plain set. 

2006 Bacon: Essays. Of Beauty. 



DICTIONARY OF PROSE QUOTATIONS. 289 

Virtue is both the parent and the guardian of 
friendship ; without virtue friendship cannot pos- 
sibly exist. Cicero : 

2007 Be Amicitia, vi., 20. 

Virtue does not truly reward her votary if she 
leaves him sad and half doubtful whether it would 
not have been better to serve vice. 

2008 George William Curtis : 
Harpers Magazine, 1886. Editor's Easy Chair. 

Hast thou virtue ? acquire also the graces and 
beauties of virtue. 

2009 Benjamin Franklin : Poor Richard's Al. 

The ages of greatest public spirit are not always 
eminent for private virtue. 

2010 Hume : Essays. III. That Politics 

May be Reduced to a Science. 

We seldom speak of the virtue which we have, 
but much oftener of that which we lack. 

2011 Lessing: Minna von Bar nhelm. II. 1. 

(E. R. T., Translator.) 

Can virtue hide itself? Go to, mum, you are 
he; graces will appear, and there's an end. 

2012 Shaks. : Much Ado, Act ii., Sc. 1. 



Vision. 

The higher and wider is the sweep of vision, 
the more difficult is it to stumble at trifles and 
make mountains out of mole hills. 

2013 Arthur Penrhyn Stanley : 

Lectures on the History of the Eastern Church. 



290 DICTIONARY OF PROSE QUOTATIONS. 

Vocation. 

One must espouse some pursuit, taking it kindly 
at heart and with enthusiasm. 

2014 A. Bronson Alcott: Table-Talk. 

III. Far suits. Leisure. 

,r Tis my vocation, Hal; 'tis no sin for a man to 
labor in his vocation. 

2015 Shaks. : 1 Henry IV., Act i., Sc. 2. 

Voice, The. 

There is no index of character so sure as the 
voice. Disraeli (Earl of Beaconsfield) : 

2016 Tancred, Bk. ii., Ch. 1. 

Songs may be mute ; for songs may exist un- 
sung, but voices exist only while they sound. 

2017 Landor: Imaginary Conversations. 

The Abbe Belille and Walter Landor. 

The voice is Jacob's voice, but the hands are the 
hands of Esau. 

2018 Old Testament: Genesis xxvii. 22. 

Vows. 

All unnecessary vows are folly, because they 
suppose a prescience of the future, which has not 
been given us. Dr. Johnson : Letters to 

2019 and from the Late Samuel Johnson. 

Vulgarity. 

Simple and innocent vulgarity is merely an un- 
trained and undeveloped bluntness of body and 
mind : but in true, inbred vulgarity, there is a 
dreadful callousness which in extremity becomes 
capable of every sort of bestial habit and crime, 



DICTIMX^BY of prc«se quotati ks 

without fear, without pleasure, without horror, and 
without pity. BcSKiy : Sesame and LMts. 

202C Of King* Treasuries. 

W. 
Wants. 

He who has the i-~ est wants is nearest to the 
gods. Socrates : 

2021 {Diogenes LaerUus. ii. 5. 11. _ " 

War. 

r never leaves, where it found a nation. 

: : l Bceke : Letters on a Begicide Peace. 

War will never yield but to the principle 
universal justice and love, and these have no sure 
root but in the religion of Jesus Chris! 

■_ . WtT.T.T\M Ei.LI7 i 'HAXSTS 

Discourse* 1835. liar. 

Battle, with the sword, has cut many a Gordian 
knot in twain which all the wit of East and W 
of Xorthern and Border statesmen, could not 
untie. Z :: i }> y 

_ 2± Lectures and Biographical Sketches. 

r :: . - 1--.-. ■*. 

War educates the — s, calls into action the 
will, perfects the physical constitution, brings men 
into such swift- and close collision in critical 
moments that man measures man. 

: _ Emkbsoh : Lecture* Boston* mux 

Marer 1838. War. 

The great acts of war require to be undertaken 
by noblemen. Victor HrG 

, : Ninety-Three. Pt. i.. Bk. ii.. Ch. 3. 

(Benedict, Transtat 



292 DICTIONARY OF PROSE QUOTATIONS. 

They shall have wars and pay for their pre- 
sumption. 

2027 Shaks. : 3 Henry VI. , Act iv., Sc. 1. 
Nothing except a battle lost can be half so 

melancholy as a battle won. 

2028 Duke of Wellington: 

Despatch. 1815. 

The whole art of war consists in getting at what 

is on the other side of the hill, or, in other words, 

in learning what we do not know from what we 

do. Duke of Wellington: 

2029 To J. W. Croktr in Conversation, 

Weakness. 

There are two kinds of weakness, that which 
breaks and that which bends. 

2030 Lowell : Among My Books. 

Shakespeare Once More 
Wealth. 

If you would be wealthy, think of saving as 
well as of getting. 

2031 Benjamin Franklin : Poor Richard's AL 

Wealth is an imperious mistress ; she requires 
the whole heart and life of man. 

2032 Laboulaye: Abdallah, Ch. 9. 

(Mary L. Booth, Translator.) 

Wealth may be an excellent thing, for it means 
power, it means leisure, it means liberty. 

2033 Lowell : Democracy and Other 
Addresses. Address, Cambridge, Mass. 

Wealth is the smallest thing on earth, the least 
gift that God has bestowed on mankind. 

2034 Martin Luther: Table Talk. Of the 

Nature of the World. No. 167. 



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A man can no more make a safe use of wealth 
without reason, than he can of a horse without a 
bridle. SOCRATES: 

2035 (F. A. Paley, Translator, in Greek Wit.) 

Weather, The. 

We consider it tedious to talk of the weather, 
and vet there is nothing- more important, 

203 6 Auebbac h : On ih t He igh ts . 

(Bennett, Translator.) 

Weeds. 

Weeds . . . have hateful moral qualities. To 
cut down a weed is. therefore, to do a moral action. 
I feel as if I were destroying sin. 

2037 Charles Puplfa- Warneb : 
My Summer in a Garden. Third Week, 

Welcome. 

I reckon this always, — that a man is never 
undone till he be hanged : nor never welcome to a 
place till some certain shot be paid and the hostess 
say. Welcome. 

2038 Siiaks. : Two Gent, of V.. Act ii.. Sc. 5. 



Whist. 

A clear lire, a clean hearth, and the rigor of the 
game. Charles Lamb: 

2039 Mrs. Battle's opinions on Whist. 



r> 



Wickedness. 

Cato requested old men not to add the disgrace 
of wickedness to old age. which was accompanied 
with many other evils. 

20-40 Plutarch: Roman Apophthegms. 

>kr. 



294 DICTIONARY OF PROSE QUOTATIONS. 

'Cause I's wicked — I is. Ts mighty wicked 
anyhow. I cant help it. 

2041 Harriet Beecher Stowe : 

Uncle Tom's Cabin, Ch. 20. 

Widows. 

•• Widders, Samniy." replied Mr. Weller, 

slightly changing color, " widders are 'ceptions to 
ev'ry rule. I have heerd how many ord'nary 
women one widder's equal to. in pint o' eonrin' 
over you. I think it's five-and-twenty. but I don't 
rightly know vether it ain't more." 

2042 Dickens: Pickwick Papers, Ch. 24. 

Wife. 

It is a characteristic of good wires that they feel 
and resent an injury to their husbands much more 
than they themselves do. Women's feelings are 
only aroused when we have regained the £audin£"- 
rope which seemed to slip out of our hands. 

2043 Bismakck: Conversations with Prince 
Bismarck, collected by Heinrich von Poschinger. 

Thy wife is a constellation of virtues : she's the 
moon, and thou art the man in the moon. 

2044: Coxg-reye : L o ve jo t L o vt . Act i . , Sc . 5 . 

Will. 

There is nothing more precious to a man than 
his will: there is nothing which he relinquishes 
with so much reluctance. J. G. Holland : 

2045 Plain Talks on Familar Subjects. 

VIP Cost and Compensation. 

That to live by one man's will became the cause 
of all men's misery. 

2046 Bichaei) Hooker : Ecclesiastical Polity. 



DICTIONARY OF PROSE QUOTATIONS. 295 

Wind. 

We must not think too unkindly oven of the east 
wind. It is not, perhaps, a wind to be loved, even 
in its benignest moods ; but there are seasons when 
I delight to feel its breath upon my cheek, though 
it be never advisable to throw open my bosom and 
take it into my heart, as I would its gentle sisters 
of the south and west. 

2047 Hawthorne : American Note-Books. 

June 11, 1840. 

God tempers the wind to the shorn lamb. 

2048 Laurence Sterne : 
Sentimental Journey. Maria. 

Wine. 

Wine, like to fire, succoreth mankind. 

2049 Panyasis: Fragment 4, 12. 

(Diibner's Edition.) 

Come, come, good wine is a good familiar 
creature, if it be well used ; exclaim no more 
against it. 

2050 Shaks. : Othello, Act ii., Sc. 3. 

Good wine needs no bush. 

2051 Shaks. : As You Like It. Epilogue. 

O thou invisible spirit of wine ! If thou hast no 
name to be known by, let us call thee devil. 

2052 Shaks. : Othello, Act ii., Sc. 3. 

Winter. 

A long hard winter lived through from begin- 
ning to end without shirking is one of the most 
salutary experiences in the world. There is no 
nonsense about it ; you could not indulge in 



296 DICTIONARY OF PROSE QUOTATIONS. 

vapors and the finer sentiments in the midst of 
its deadly earnest if yon tried. 

2053 Mary A. B. Arnim (Grafw von) : 

The Solitary Summer. June. 

Take Winter as yon find him, and he turns out 
to be a thoroughly honest fellow with no nonsense 
in him, and tolerating none in you, which is a 
great comfort in the long run. 

2054 Lowell: My Study Windows. 

A Good Word for Winter. 

Wisdom. 

Great is wisdom ; infinite is the value of wisdom. 
It cannot he exaggerated : it is the highest achic 
ment of man. Carlyxe : 

2055 Miscellanies. Inaugural Addrt 

inburgh, April 2, 1866. 

He that never thinks, never can he wise. 

2056 Dr. Johnson: Basselas, Ch. 17. 

The only jewel which you can carry beyond the 
grave is wisdom. 

2057 James Alfred Langford: 
The Praise of Books. Preliminary Ei 

Wisdom is justified of her children. 

2058 New TESTAMENT: Matthew xi. 19: 

Luke vii. 85. 

Wisdom is better than rabies. 

2059 Old Testament: Proverbs viiL 11. 

Well, God give them wisdom that have it: and 
those that are fools let them use their talents. 

2060 Shaks. : Tw. Night, Act L, 



DICTIONARY OF PROSE QUOTATIONS. 2 ( .)7 

• 

Wit. 

Wit without employment is a disease. 

2061 Burton: Anatomy of Melancholy, 

Pt L, Sec ii., Mem. 2, Subs. 6. 

Don't put too fine a point to your wit, for fear it 
should get blunted. Cervantes: 

2062 The Exemplary Novels. The Little 

Gypsy Girl. {Kelly, Translator.) 

Those who object to wit are envious of it. 
20G;> Hazlitt: Characteristics. JSo. 374. 

The hapless wit has his labors always to begin, 
the call for novelty is never satisfied, and one jest 
only raises expectation of another. 

2064 Dr. JOHNSON: The Rambler. No. 141. 

Wit has its place in debate; in controversy it is 
a legitimate weapon, offensive and defensive. 

2065 Theodore Parker: Speeches, 
Addresses, and Occasional Sermons. Dis- 
course, Boston, March 5, 1848. The Death 
of John Quincy Adams. 

I am not only witty in myself, but the cause that 
wit is in other men. 

2066 Siiaks. : 2 Henry IV., Act i., Sc. 2. 

Sir, your wit ambles well : it goes easily. 

2067 Siiaks. : Much Ado, Act v., Sc. 1. 

Welcome, pure wit! 

2068 Siiaks. : Love's L. Lost, Act v., Sc. 2. 

Surprise is so essential an ingredient of wit 
that no wit will bear repetition'; at least, the 



298 DICTIONARY OF PROSE QUOTATIONS. 

original electrical feeling produced by any piece 
of wit can never be renewed. 

2069 Sydney Smith : Lecture. 
The Conduct of the Understanding. 

Wit is more necessary than beauty ; and I 
think no young woman ugly that has it, and no 
handsome woman agreeable without it. 

2070 Wycherley : 

The Country Wife, Act i., Sc. 1. 
Women. 

Where women are, the better things are implied 
if not spoken. 

2071 A. Bronson Alcott: Table Talk. 

VI. Discourse. Conversation. 

Women wish to be loved without a why or a 
wherefore ; not because they are pretty, or good, 
or well-bred, or graceful, or intelligent, but 
because they are themselves. 

2072 Amiel: Journal, March 17, 1868. 
(Mrs. Humphrey Ward, Translator.) 

It is always best to allow a woman to do as she 
likes if you can, and it saves a good deal of 
bother. To have what she desired is generally 
an effective punishment. 

2073 Mary A. B. Arnim (Grafin von) : 

The Solitary Summer. May. 

If there be any one whose power is in beauty, 
in purity, in goodness, it is a woman. 

2074: Henry Ward Beecher: 

Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit. 

The happiest women, like the happiest nations, 
have no history. George Eliot : 

2075 The Mill on the Floss, Bk. vi., Ch. 3 



DICTIONARY OF PROSE QUOTATIONS. 299 

'Tis the greatest misfortune in nature for a 
woman to want a confidant. 

2076 Farqltiar : The Recruiting Officer, 

Act iv., Sc. 2. 

Women forgive injuries, but never forget 
slights. 

2077 Thomas C. Haliburton (Sam Slick) : 

The Old Judge, Ch. 15. 

Woman must be either a subject or an equal ; 
there is no middle ground. Every conclusion to 
a supposed principle only involves the necessity 
of the next concession for which that principle 
calls. 

2078 Thomas Wentworth Higginson: 

Women and the Alphabet. 

Nature is in earnest when she makes a woman. 

2079 Holmes : 

The Autocrat of the Breakfast- Table, Ch. 12. 

One of the advantages of the negative part as- 
signed to women in life is that they are seldom 
forced to commit themselves. They can, if they 
choose, remain perfectly passive while a great 
many things take place in regard to them ; they 
need not account for what they do not do. From 
time to time a man must show his hand, but save 
for one supreme exigency a woman need never 
show hers. She moves in mystery as long as she 
likes ; and mere reticence in her, if she is young 
and fair, interprets itself as good sense and good 
taste. W. D. Ho wells : 

2080 Ihe Lady of the Aroostook, Ch. 6. 



300 DICTIONARY OF PROSE QUOTATIONS. 

Great women belong to history and to self- 
sacrifice. 

2081 Leigh Hunt: Table-Talk. 

Mrs. Siddons. 

When a man does good work. out of all propor- 
tion to his pay, in seven cases out of nine there is 
a woman at the back of the virtue. 

2082 Rudyard Kipling: 

Plain Tales from the Hills. His Chance in Life. 

Nature intended that woman should be her 
masterpiece. Lessing : 

2083 Emilie Galotli, V. 7. {Lewes, Translator.) 

The proper study of mankind is woman. 

2084 Coventry Patmore : {Memoirs and 
Correspondence of Coventry Patmore, by 

Basil Champneys, Ch. 5.) 

We cannot determine^ what the queenly power 
of women should be until we are agreed what 
their ordinary power should be. We cannot con- 
sider how education may fit them for any widely 
extending duty until we are agreed what is their 
true constant duty. 

2085 Ruskin : Sesame and Lilies. 

Of Queens" Gardens. 

A child of our grandmother Eve, a female; or, 
for thy more sweet understanding, a woman. 

2086 Shaks. : Love's L. Lost, Act i., Sc. 1. 

Do you not know I am a woman ? when I think 
I must speak. 

2087 Shaks. ■ As You Like Lt, Act iii., Sc. 2. 



DICTIONARY OF PROSE QUOTATIONS. 301 

If God made woman beautiful, he made her so 
to be looked at — to give pleasure to the ey es 
which rest upon her — and she has no business to 
dress herself as if she were a hitching-post, or to 
transform that which should give delight to those 
among whom she moves, into a ludicrous carica- 
ture of a woman's form. 

2088 Timothy Titcomb (J. G. Holland) : 

Lessons in Life. Mistakes in Penance. 

Would you hurt a woman worst, aim at her 
affections. 

2089 Lew Wallace: Ben Eur, Bk. vi., Ch. 2. 

Woman always did, from the first, make a muss 
in a garden. 

2090 Charles Dudley Warner: 

My Summer in a Garden. First Week. 

Woman is a creature without reason, who 
pokes the fire from the top. 

2091 Archbishop Whately. 

Words. 

Words are the transcript of those ideas which 
are in the mind of man, and that writing or 
printing is the transcript of words. 

2092 Addison: The Spectator. No. 166. 

All words are pegs to hang ideas on. 

2093 Henry Ward Beech er : 
Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit. 

Richtcr says of Luther's words, " His words are 
half battles. 11 

2094 Carlyle: Heroes and Hero Worship. 

The Hero as Prii >/. 



302 DICTIONARY OF PROSE QUOTATIONS. 

For one word a man is often deemed to be wise, 
and for one word he is often deemed to be foolish. 
We ought to be careful indeed what we say. 

2095 Confucius: Analects, Bk. xix., 
Ch. 25, Sec. 2. (Legge, Translator.) 

There is no calamity which right words will 
not begin to redress. 

2096 Emerson: Society and Solitude. 

Eloquence. 

Gentle words, quiet words, are, after all, the 
most powerful words. They are more convincing, 
more compelling, more prevailing. 

2097 Washington Gladden : Things Old 

and New. VIII. The Tamed Tongue. 

Articulate words are a harsh clamor and dis- 
sonance. When man arrives at his highest per- 
fection, he will again be dumb ! For I suppose he 
was dumb at the Creation, and must go around an 
entire circle in order to return to that blessed 
state. Hawthorne : 

2098 American Note-Books. April, 1841. 

Words are less needful to sorrow than to joy. 

2099 Helen Jackson (H. H.) : 

Ramona, Ch. 17. 

Before employing a fine word, find a place for 
it. Joubert : 

2100 Pensees. No. 302. (Attwell, Translator.) 

A word once vulgarized can never be rehabili- 
tated . 

2101 Lowell: Among My Books. 

Shakespeare Once More. 



DICTIONARY OF PROSE QUOTATIONS. 303 

His words, like so many nimble and airy servi- 
tors, trip about him at command. 

2102 Milton: Apology for Smectymnuus. 

A few words, well chosen and distinguished, 
will do work that a thousand cannot, when every 
one is acting, equivocally, in the function of 
another. Yes ; and words, if they are not watched, 
will do deadly work sometimes. 

2103 Ruskix : Sesame and Lilies. . 

Of Kings' 1 Treasuries. 

A fine volley of words, gentlemen, and quickly 
shot off. 

2101 Shaks. : Two Gent, of F., Act ii., Sc. 4. 

Men of few words are the best men. 

2105 Shaks. : Henry F., Act iii., Sc. 2. 

Pol. What do you read, my lord ? 
Ham. Words, words, words! 

2106 Shaks. : Hamlet, Act ii., Sc. 2. 

Some syllables are swords. 

2107 Henry Vaughan: Rides and Lessons. 

Great writers and orators are commonly econo- 
mists in the use of words. 

2108 E. P. Whipple: American Literature. 
Daniel Webster as a Master of English Style. 

Wordsworth. 

Of no other poet except Shakespeare have so 
many phrases become household words as of 
Wordsworth. If Pope has made current more 
epigrams of worldly wisdom, to Wordsworth be- 
longs the nobler praise of having defined for us, 
and given for us a daily possession, those faint and 



304 DICTIONARY OF PROSE QUOTATIONS. 

vague suggestions of other-worlclliness of whose 
gentle ministry with our baser nature the hurry 
and bustle of life scarcely ever allowed us to be 
conscious. Lowell : 

2109 Among My Books. Wordsworth. 

Work. 

If I have done good work, that will keep my 
memory green ; but if not, not all the statues in 
the world will serve. 

2110 Agesilaus (Plutarch, Apophlhegmata 

Laconica, Agesilaus , 79. 215, a.) 

Genuine work alone, what thou workest faith- 
fully, that is eternal as the Almighty Founder and 
World-Builder himself. 

2111 Carlyle: Past and Present, Bk. ii., Ch. 17. 

Work is the grand cure for all the maladies and 
miseries that ever beset mankind, — honest work, 
which you intend getting done. 

2112 Carlyle: Miscellanies. 
Inaugural Address. Edinburgh, April 2, 1866. 

Better to wear out than to rust out. 

2113 Bishop Cumberland : Sermon, Duty 
of Contending for the Truth, by Bishop Home. 

Unless a man works he cannot find out what he 
is able to do. Hamerton : 

2114 Modern Frenchmen. Francois Rude. 

The moment a man can really do his work he 
becomes speechless about it. All words become 
idle to him, all theories. 

2115 Ruskin : Sesame and Lilies. 

Of the Mystery of Life. 



DICTIONARY OF PROSE QUOTATIONS. 305 

It is far better to give work which is above the 
men than to educate the men to be above their 
work. Ruskin: 

2116 The Seven Lamps of Architecture, Ch. 7. 

Work is the inevitable condition of human life, 
the true source of human welfare. 

2117 Tolstoi: My Religion, Ch. 10. 

VTorld, The. 

The world is the same everywhere. 

2118 Auerbach : On the Heights. 

(Bennett, Translator.) 

The world is a thing that a man must learn to 
despise, and even to neglect, before he can learn 
to reverence it, and work in it and for it. 

2119 Carlyle : Thomas Carlylc, 
First Forty Years, by Froucle. 

The world is not made for the prosperous alone, 
nor for the strong. George William Curtis : 

2120 The Potiphar Papers. VII. 

The world is all gates, all opportunities, strings 
of tension waiting to be struck. 

2121 Emerson: Resources. 

Worry. 

It is not work that kills men ; it is worry. 
Work is healthy ; you can hardly put more upon 
a man than he can bear. Worry is rust upon the 
blade. 

2123 Henry Ward Beecher: Life Thoughts. 

Worship. 

Man alwa} T s worships something ; always he 
sees the Infinite shadowed forth in something 



30i^ btj si \>. 

: - .. . . *o see it in any 

finke things or -; .ipfc Mm well to fix Ids pes 

:./. v ■■-. K-« i - 

. .: : y ■ , - \ '::.■ ■. . No. :;. isss ) 

. ■ , ■ , . l some joiu- 

niandwig relation to the heklth of n his 

iv.^/.os: powers, so -is - ue manti 

:.:■: Worst 

. - - ; it, and 

happier sonietinies cheated than not to trust. 

213 Dr. Johxs s : The Bow No. 



x. 

he could lire with - :uan [Xanthippe], he 

• > - - rcis - in y 

patience, and enables me to bear with all the m- 

;::>: ~ '- :vs *' 

213 : J.Thomas " -imiiary 



Y 
Yoiiti. 

V :v; : .s i : '" "^ :: 7 ;■; y ■.-.•. youth which 

••■ is s :;> ". • - - g is 

i - ■ ■ 

Hallux: r«We 2foflL Second Sw 

s a. 



DICTIONARY OF PROSE QUOTATIONS. •"•". 

Youth comes but once in a lifetime. 

2129 Longfellow: II , Bk. ii., Ch. 10. 

If youth be a defect, it is one that we outgrow 
only on. Lowell: 

21! Dei Other Ad 

We have some salt of our youth in as. 

2131 Shaks. : Mer. W. oj H'.. Act ii.. - 

Z. 

Zeal. 

If our zeal were true and genuine we should be 
much more angry with a sinner than a heretic. 

21: Addison: Thi Spectator. No. 185. 

I would have every zealous man examine his 
heart thoroughly, and I believe he will often find 
that what he calls a zeal for his religion is either 
pride, interest, or ill-repute. 

21; Addison: Thi y N< 

There Is nol _ in which men more 
thems - than in what they call zeal. 

Addison : Thi \ No. tSl 

The hopes of zeal are not wholly groundlc — . 
2i Dr. Johnson: Works. IX. 4 

(Oxford ed. 1825 

An ardent desire of hallowing" the name of God. 

_ iher with an indignation against whatever 

- to the violation or contempt of religion, is 

called zeal. Milt- \ : 

2136 27 eal. 

This, in religion, is a pure enlig 1 attach- 

ment to the mainfc and progress f the n 



308 DICTIONARY OF PliOSE QUOTATIONS. 

ship which is due to the Divinity ; but when this 
zeal is persecuting, blind, and false, it becomes the 
greatest scourge of humanity, Voltaire : 

2137 A Philosophical Dictionary. Zeal. 

Zeal is no further commendable than as it is 
attended with knowledge. 

2138 Thomas Wilson : Maxims 

Piety and of Chrii 



INDEX OF AUTHORS 



The references which follow the chronological data are the 

numbers of the quotations in consecutive order from the 

respective authors under which they are placed. 



Abbott, Lyman, b. KoxburY, 

Mass., 1835; — 1118, 

1194, 1226, 1309, 1367, 1385, 
1559, 1597, 1603, 1673, 1692, 
1741, 1910, 1935, 1938. 

Adams, John. b. Braintree, 
Mass., 1735; d. Quincy, 
Mass., 1826.— 368, 719, 836, 893, 
1452. 

Adams, John Qiiincy. b. 
Braintree, Mass., 1767; d. 
Washington, D. C, 1848.— 
1143. 

Addison, Joseph, b. Mils- 
ton, Wiltshire, Eng., 1672; 
d. London, Eng., 1719. —119, 
147, 152, 435, 502, 509, 6i6, 881, 
951, 980, 1196, 1560, 1699, 1885, 
2005, 2092, 2132, 2133, 2134. 

Agesilans II. nourished 398 
B. c— 1410, 1540, 2110. 

Alcott, Amos Bron son. b. 
Wolcott, Conn., 1799 ; d. Bos- 
ton, Mass., 1888. —201, 212, 
334, 629, 848, 855, 928, 1227, 
1378, 1403, 1518, 152S, 1705. 
1803, 1921, 2014, 2071. 

Alphonso the Wise (Al- 
phonso X.). b. 1226 ; d. 1284. 

— 17. 

Amiel, Henri Frederic, b. 
Geneva, Switzerland, 1821 ; 
d. Geneva, Switzerland, 1881. 

— 128, 234, 372, 666, 1579, 1640, 
1799, 2072. 

30 



Antisthenes. nourished 

about 380 b. c. — 572. 

Apollonius. — 1S51. 

Appleton, Thomas Gold. 
b. Boston, Mass., 1812; d. 
1884. — 1346. 

Aretino, Pietro. b. Arezzo, 
Italy, 1492 ; d. Venice, Italy, 
1557. — 1859. 

Aristotle, b. Stagira, Mace- 
donia, 384 B. c. ; d. Chalcis 
in Eubcea, Greece, 322 B.C. 
— 459, 619, 754, 1414, 1508. 

Ariiim, Mary A. B., Graft* n 

von —1882, 2053, 

2073. 

Arnold, 'Matthew, b. Lale- 
ham, near Stainer, Eng., 
1822; d. Liverpool, Eng., 
1888. — 293, 667, 735, 794, 1423. 
1939. 

Atterbury, Bishop Francis. 
b. Milton, near Newport- 
Pagnell, Buckinghamshire, 
Eng., 1662: d. Taris, France, 
1732. — 1963. 

Auerbach, Bert hold. b. 
Nordstetten, Black Forest, 
Germany, 1812 ; d. Cannes, 
France, 1882. — 727. 1092, 1219, 
1668, 2036, 2118. 

Bacon, Francis, b. London, 
Eng., 1561 ; d. London, Eng., 
1626.— 23, 214, 232, 25;*, 317, 
371, 373, 379, 384, 389, 507, 554, 

9 



310 DICTIONARY OF PROSE QUOTATIONS. 



579. (301, 606. 620, 655. 656. 744, 
778, 822, 831, 843. 890. 920.942. 
975. 976. 994. 1037. 1056. 1076. 
1201. 1234. 1280. 1285. 1286. 
1338. 1854. 1460. 1461. 1473.1500. 
1526. 1591. 1592. 1593. 1605.1624. 
1664. 1706. 1755. 1797. 1811.1819. 
1820. 1824. 1835. 1922. 1940.1981. 
1995. 2001. 2006. 

Baillie, Joanna, b. Lanark- 
shire. Scot., 1762 ; d. Hamp- 
stead. Eng.. 1851. — 1477. 

Balfour, Arthur James, b. 

England, 1848 ; — 

498. 

Ballon, Hosea. b. Rich- 
mond, X.H.. 1771 ; d. Boston. 
Mass., 1852.— 522. 772. 

Barere de Vieuzac, Ber- 
tram!, b. Tarbes, France. 
1755: d. France, 1841. — 1048. 

Bartol, Cyrus Augustus. 
b. Freeport. Me.. 1813 ; d. 
1901. — 611. 759. 825, 1710. 1776. 

Baxter, Richard, b. Bow- 
ton, Eng., 1615: d. London, 
Fug.. 1691.— 1541. 

Bayard, James Aslieton. 
b. Philadelphia, Penn., 1767 : 
d. Wilmington, Del.. 1815. — 
327. 

Beale, Lionel Smith. b. 

London. Eng., 1828 ; 

83. 

Beaumont and Fletcher. 
Beaumont, Francis. b. 
Leicestershire. Eng., 1586: 
d. 1615. 
Fletcher, John. b. Eye. Fug.. 
1576 : d. London. Eng-, 
1625. — 1913. 1982, 

Beeelier, Henry Ward. b. 
Litchfield, Conn., 1818 : d. 
Brooklyn. X.Y.. 1887. —6. 41, 
64. 75. 88, 139,219, 249. 259. 300, 

580. 652. 698. 713. 785. 870. 965, 
1096. 1221. 1274. 1344, 1462.1506. 
1538. 1606. 1625. 1665, 1667.16,9, 
1689. 1734. 1812, 1872. 2074.2093. 
2122. 

Bellows, Henry Whitnev. 
b. Boston. Mass.. 1814: d. 
New York City, 1882. — 1147. 



Besant, Walter, be Ports 
month, Eng., 1838 ; d. Hamp- 
stead. Eng-r, 1901. — 153. 

Biekerstaff, Isaac, b. in 
Ireland about 1735 ; d. 1812. 

— 125. 

Binney, Horace, b. Phila- 
delphia. Pennsylvania, 1780 ; 
d. Philadelphia, Penn., 1875. 

— 894. 
Bismarck-Schonhausen, 

von, Karl Otto. b. Bran- 
denburg. Prussia. 1815 : d. 
Friedrichsruh, G e r in a n v, 
1898. — 365. 1810, 1875, 1960, 
1973. 2043. 

Blackmore, Sir Kichard. 
b. Wiltshire, Eng., about 
1650 ; d. 1729.— 525,^888. 

Blair. Hugh. b. Edinburgh, 
Scot.. 1718 : d. 1800.— 618. 

Blind, Mathilde, b. Mann- 
heim, 1841: d., 1896. — 418. 

Boileau, Nicolas ^Boileau- 
Despreaux). b. Paris, 1636; 
d. Paris. 1711.— 24. 

Bronte, Charlotte, b. 
Thornton. Yorkshire, Eng., 
1816 : d. Ha^vorth, Eng., 18o5. 

— 538. 684. 869. 1841. 
Brooks, Phillips, b. Boston, 

Mass.. 1835 : d. 1893. — 220. 
282. 621. 764, 966. 974, 1291.1616, 
1666. 1682. 1690. 

Brougham, Lord Henry. 
b. Edinburgh. Scot.. 17,9 : d. 
Cannes, France. 1868. — 1031, 
1646. 

Browne, Sir Thomas, b. 
London. Eng., 1605; d. Nor- 
wich, Eng. , 16S2. — 398, 503, 
600. 1983. 

Bryant, William Cullen. b. 
Cummington, Mass.. 1794 ; d. 
New York City, 1878. —1424, 
1678. 

B u 1 w e r-]Lytton, Edward 
Georjje Earle Eytton 
(Baron Lytton). b. Norfolk 
Eng.. 1805: d. Torquay] 
France. 1873. — 37, 231, 257.' 
908. 1148, 1211. 1350. 1539. 1542, 
1610. 1897. 



AUTH - 






Bun-, i >. John. o\r, 

Em ".58; d. Lou 

1232, 1368, 

!'. _ . . William Cecil, 

I iL o. Boom, Lincoln- 

-. Eng., 153); d. 1598.— 

Burke. Edmund. b.Dublin, 

a 1797.-27,63,101 

. - - - 

_- 181 : U, ;: 3 

1821, 1 . 1952, 

:: 

Barton. Robert. ' . L::: :".-". 
1640.— o 12 
1174, 1263, 1291, 

Bu-hnell, Horace, b. New 
-:on, Conn., 1803 
Hartford, Conn., 1876. — 1071. 
Cable, G 
ton. b. New Orleans, La., 
1-44 : . . . . — 1767. 
1. E. — 

• in, John Gal I 
Abbeville • 

Washington, D.C., 
— 1250. 
Calve rse Hem 

Baltimore, M-l .. 1S03; <L 
:■ • — \74 
Campbell. Lor.l John. b. 
near Cupar, Scot ; <L 

London. E _ J6L —895. 
Carlvlp. Thorn i-. 
fechan, So L Chel- i 

sea, near L g. % 1881. 

— J05. 

599, 736, 800, 

-4. mv ^:. :v.:. :>. y ; v;. 

'. 114*3. Ill " 

- - 
... 

-. :-•- i: - 

1886, 1893, 194. _ 2094 

■-'111. 2113 . .123. 

: u*. b. 
Tusculum, Italv. 234 I 
«1 I : «33. 



lUns, ( J - Valerias. 

* or near Verona, Italy. 

" - " i. about ffi B — 

I i 
fruel de. b. Aleala de 
nares, Spa:: Madrid, 

- tin, 1616. — 38, 145. 
155. 19 3 _ . . ,. --.- 
454, 530, 594, 730, 806, 829, 913, 

' MB 77, 10 ". :_ 
: 74. 14- ". :" 4. i:-7 : : 

1729, 1934, 1984, 1987, 
1993, 2062. 

Cliannin?. TTillJ ' ery. 

b. Newport. K. L, 17S0; d. 
Bennington. Vt.. 1813 . — _:. 
274 422 517 

=74 ... :>: 141', 

meld. Paul. _ T^I.D. 
(Horace Smith i. b. London, 
El:_ .'_".• Tnnbridge 

1849.— 430. 
fh ~ Lord (Philip 

Dormer Stanhope*, b. Lon- 
don, Eng., 1694 : I. 1773-8. 
— . _ Ml _ - J35, 344. 

35:- ,433 13 " U3 : 

: . :,; :--.: : - 
Child, Lv dj a 31 a ri a. b. 

: . d. 

1880—1024. 
Chi I reece ; flourished 

— : :- : : 
Choate, Rufus. 

1799 ;d. Halifax, > - 
ffi 1115. 

London. 
Eng., 1671: d. 1753 
C icero, lias. b. 

r»innm. Italy, 106 
Fonniae, Ita. — 5 

481, 490. 695." 809, 915. 1 

1305, 12S3, 1356. 1392, 1445. 

... . 

Clasp, Henry. — 

CI irk--. I>r Adam. b. near 
ndonderrr, Ireland. 17 
d. London,' . - 

Clarke. Ja 



312 DICTIONARY OF PROSE QUOTATIONS. 



b. Hanover, N. H., 1810 ; d. 
Jamaica Plain, Mass., 1888. 

— 116, 769, 1002, 1854. 
Clay, Henry, b. "The 

Slashes," Hanover County, 
Va., 1777; d. Washington, 
D. C, 1852. — 1612. 

Cleveland, Grover. b. Cald- 
well, N. J., 1837 ; . . . 252,492. 

Coke, Sir Edward, b. Mile- 
ham, Eng., 1552; d. Stoke 
Pogis, Eng., 1633. — 186, 269. 

Coleridge, Hartley, b. near 
Bristol, Eng., 1796 ; d. Rydal 
Water, Eng., 1849. —935, 
1401. 

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor. 
b. Devonshire, Eng., 1772; d. 
London, Eng., 1834. — 337, 
840, 1887. 

Collyer, Rohert. b. Keighly, 
Eng., 1823; — 1311. 

Colton, Charles Caleb, b. 
England, 1780 ; d. Fontaine- 
bleau, France, 1832. — 54, 
266, 574, 607, 630, 1084, 1942. 

Confucius, b. Shang-ping, 
Lu, China, 551 B. c. ; d. Lu, 
China, 499 B, c. — 191, 1711, 
1818, 2095. 

Congreve, William, b. 
Bardsey, Eng., 1670; d. Lon- 
don, Eng., 1729.— 586, 752, 
884, 1099, 1164, 1425, 2044. 

Cook, Joseph, b. Ticonde- 
roga, N.Y., 1838; d. Ticonde- 
roga, N.Y., 1901. — 419, 682. 

Cooper, James Fenimore. 
b. Burlington, N. J., 1789; d. 
Cooperstown, N. Y., 1851. — 
871, 1301, 1564. 

Cowper, William, b. Great 
Berkhamstead, Hertford- 
shire, Eng., 1731; d. 1800. 

— 479. 
Cumberland, Richard, 

Bishop, b. London, Eng., 

1632 ; d. 1718. — 2113. 
Curtis, George William. 

b. Providence, R. I., 1824; d. 

1892.— 25, 765, 1320, 1361, 

1580, 1620, 1855, 2008, 2120. 
Cushman, Charlotte. b. 



Boston, Mass., 1816 ; d. Liv- 
erpool, Eng., 1876. — 69, 1228. 

Daniel, Samuel, b. Taun- 
ton, Eng., 1562; d. 1619.— 
1449. 

Davies, Scrope Berdmore. 
b. England, d. 1852. — 

1192. 

Dawson, George, b. Lon- 
don, Eng., 1821; d. Kings- 
norton, near Birmingham, 
Eng., 1876. — 717. 

Dawson, Sir John "Wil- 
liam, b. Pictou, N.S., 1820; 
d. 1899.— 95. 

Decatur, Stephen, b. Sinne- 
puxent, Md., 1779; d. Bla- 
densburg, Md., 1820. — 1116. 

De Foe, Daniel, b. London, 
Eng., 1661 ; d. London, Eng., 
1731. — 818, 981. 

Democritus. b. Abdera, in 
Thrace, Greece, between 490 
and 460 B.C. — 436, 714, 812, 
1463, 1707. 

Dennis, John. b. London, 
Eng., 1657 ; d. 1734. — 1895. 

De Quincey, Thomas, b. 
Greenhay, Manchester, Eng., 
1786 ; d. Edinburgh, Scot., 
1859. — 679, 1644, 1756. 

Dewey, Orville. b. Sheffield, 
Mass., 1794; d. Sheffield, 
Mass., 1882. — 1888. 

Dickens, Charles, b Land- 
port, near Portsmouth, Eng., 
1812 ; d. Gadshill, near Ro- 
chester, Eng., 1870. — 223, 
226, 369, 596, 645, 1212, 1444, 
1658, 1663, 1753, 1896, 1923, 2042. 

Dig-by, S ir Kenelm. b. 
Buckinghamshire,Eng.,1603; 
d. 1665. — 1433. 

Diogenes ILaertius. Circa 
200. —50, 413,1527. 

Disraeli, Benjamin (Earl of 
Beaconsfield). b. London, 
Eng., 1804 ; d. London, Eng., 
1881. — 15, 35, 48, 80, 197, 224, 
286, 321, 460, 745, 813, 861, 
1057, 1244, 1251, 1270, 1284, 
1470, 1600, 1629, 1701, 1735, 
1804, 1827, 1834, 2026. 



INDEX Oh" AUTHORS. 



313 



Disraeli, Isaac, b. near 
Knfield, Eug., 17G(J ; d. 
Bucks, Eng., 1848.— 631, 1172, 
1529. 

Dix, John Adams, b. Bos- 
cawen, N. 11., 1798; d. New 
York City, 1879. — 30. 

Draper, John Willi ana. b. 
St. Helens, near Liverpool, 
Eng., 1811; d. Hastings-on- 
the-Hudson, N. Y., 1882.— 
857. 

Drummond, Henry. b. 
Stirling, Eng., 1851 ; d. Tun- 
bridge Wells, Eng., 1897.— 
779, 786, 799, 907, 1187, 1330, 
1618. 

Dry den, John. b. Aldwinc- 
kle, Eng., 1631 ; d. London, 
Eng., 1700.-61,943, 1919. 

Dutfield, Samuel Wil- 
loughby. b. Brooklyn, N. 
Y., 1843 ; d. Bloomfield, N. J., 
1887. — 1299, 1588, 1626. 

Ebers, George Moritz. b. 
Berlin, Germany, 1837 ; d. 
Tutzing, Bavaria, 1898. — 632. 

Eliot, George (Marian Evans 
Cross), b. Arbury Farm, 
Warwickshire, Eng., 1819 ; 
d. London, Eng., 1880.— 213, 
326, 343, 500, 798, 862, 950, 995, 
1073, 1100, 1230, 1254, 1321, 
1568, 1828, 1842, 2075. 

Elliot, George Thomson. 
b. New York City, 1827 ; d. 
New York City, 1871. — 510. 

Emerson, Ralph Waldo. 
b. Boston, Mass., 1803; d. 
Concord, Mass., 1882. — 47, 
70, 107, 110, 129, 137, 156, 203, 
209, 217, 230, 246, 254, 261, 276, 
294, 370, 400, 433, 437, 439, 443, 
464, 542, 556, 593, 641, 668, 672, 
690, 715, 737, 780, 801, 802, 826, 
834, 849, 930, 936, 944, 982, 
1046, 1063, 1086, 1090, 1101, 
1108, 1239, 1255, 1324, 1380, 
1411, 1426, 1441, 1466, 1505, 
1509. 1530, 1531, 1534, 1543, 
1587, 1613, 1649, 1715, 1742, 
1743, 1744, 1752, 1779, 1813, 
1862, 1880, 18S9, 1899, 1943, 



1962, 2021, 2025, 2096, 2121, 
2124. 

Emmet, Robert, b. Dublin, 
Ireland, 1780 ; d. Dublin, 
Ireland, 1803.— 468. 

Epicharmus. b. in Greece, 
nourished 485 B. c — 142J . 

Epictetus. b. Hierapolis, 
Phyrgia, Asia Minor, 1st 
centurv ; d. 2d century. — 93, 
339, 480. 

Erasmus, Desiderius. b. 
Rotterdam, Holland, 1465- 
67 ; d. Bale, Switzerland, 
1536. — 1878. 

Euripides. b. Salamis, 
Greece, 480 B. c. ; d. 406 B. c. 
— 237, 757, 891, 1702, 1907. 

Everett, Edward, b. Dor- 
chester, Mass., 1794 ; d. Bos- 
ton, Mass., 1865. — 1480, 1968. 

Farquhar, George, b. Lon- 
donderry, Ireland, 1678 ; d. 
London, Eng., 1707. — 2076. 

Felltham, Owen. b. 1608-10 ; 
d. about 1678. — 1769. 

Field, David Dudley, b. 
Haddam, Conn., 1805; d. 
1894. — 1969. 

Fielding, Henry, b. Sharp- 
ham Park, Eng., 1707 ; d. 
Lisbon, Spain, 1754.— 388, 425, 
558. 

Fiske, John. b. Hartford, 
Conn., 1842; d. Gloucester, 
Mass., July 4, 1901. —91, 643, 
846. 

Fletcher, Andrew, b. Sal- 
toun, Scotland, 1653 ; d. Lon- 
don, Eng., 1716. — 121. 

Foote, Samuel, b. Cornwall, 
Eng., about 1720; d. 1777. — 
789, 1481. 

Franklin, Benjamin, b. 
Boston, Mass., 1706; d. Phil- 
adelphia, Penn., 1790. — 28, 
159, 181, 275, 277. 322, 333, 361, 
493, 566, 587, 623, 738, 827, 858, 
887, 902, 1035, 1039, 1047, 1213, 
1265, 1269, 1292, 1357, 1397, 
1416, 1454, 1478, I486, 1549, 
1594, 1661, 1675, 1733, 1805, 
1900, 1906, 2009, 2031. 



314 DICTIONARY OF PROSE QUOTATIONS. 



Fronde, James Anthony. 

b. Totness, Eng., 1818 ; d. 

1894. — 1, 1026, 1393, 1555. 
Fuller, Thomas, b. Ald- 

winckle, Eng., 1608 ; d. 1GG1. 

— 265, 428, 491, 731, 1064, 1521. 
Garfield, James Abrain. 

b. Orange, O., 1831 ; d. El- 
boron, N. J., 1881. — 721, 803. 

Garrison, William Lloyd. 
b. Newburyport, Mass., 1804 ; 
d. X. Y. City, 1879. —770. 

George, Henry, b. Philadel- 
phia, Penn., 1839 ; d. 1897.— 
1003. 

Gibbon, Edward, b. Put- 
ney, Eng., 1737; d. London, 
Eng., 1794. — 1262. 

Gladden, Washington, b. 
Pittsgrove, Penn., 1836 ; 

— 164, 1635, 1802,2097. 
Gladstone, William 

Ewart. b. Liverpool, Eng., 
1809 ; d. liawarden, Eng., 
1898. —1195, 1306, 1343, 1499, 
1621. 

Godwin, William, b. Wis- 
beach, Eng., 1756 ; d. London, 
Eng., 1836; — 1055, 1087. 

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang 
von. b. Frankfort-on-the 
Main, Germany, 1749 ; d.Wef- 
mar, Germany, 1832. — 102, 
130, 637,867, 1156, 1843. 

Goldsmith, Oliver, b. Pal- 
lis, Ireland, 1728 ; d. London, 
Eng. , 1774. — 320, 551, 662, 810, 
1169, 1208, 1703, 1786, 1992, 
1997. 

Grant, Ulysses Simpson. 
b. Point Pleasant, O., 1822 ; 
d. Mount McGregor, near 
Saratoga, X. Y., 1885. — 1074, 
1369, 1823. 

Greg, William Rathbone. 
b. Manchester, Eng., 1809 ; 
d. 1881. — 879. 

Haeckel, Ernest Heinrich. 
b. Potsdam, Germany, 1834. 
. . . . — 850,996, 1650. 

Hale Edward Everett, b. 
Boston, Mass., 1822; 

— 1331, 1693, 1884. 



Halihnrton, Thomas 
Chandler (" Sam Slick "). 
b. Windsor, Xova Scotia, 
1797; d. Islesworth, Eng., 
1865. — 227, 766, 2077. 

Hall, Bishop Joseph, b. 
Ashby de la Zouch, Eng., 
1574 ; d. Higham, Eng., 1656. 

— 280, 1207. 

Hall, Robert, b. Arnsby, 
Eng., 1764; d. Bristol, Eng., 
1831.— 532. 

Hamerton, Philip Gilbert. 
b. near Lancashire, Eng., 
1834; d. 1894. — 707, 1216, 
i:341, 1474, 1588, 1792, 2114. 

Hamilton, Alexander, b. 
island of Nevis, \V. 1., 1757 ; 
d. New York, 1804.— 508, 1004. 

Hare, Augustus William. 
b. Herstmonceaux, Eng., 
1793 ; d. Pome, Italy, 1834. 
Julius Charles, b. Herst- 
monceaux, Eng., 1796; d. 
Herstmonceaux, Eng., 1855. 

— 402, 1121, 1233,1498. 
Harvey, Moses, b. Armagh, 

Ireland, 1820; — 

1944. 
Haweis, Hugh Reginald. 
b.Egham, Eng., 1838; 

— 561,875,909. 
Hawthorne, Nathaniel, b. 

Salem, Mass., 1804; d. Ply- 
mouth, X. 41., 1804. — 111, 
112, 229, 354, 431, 482, 663, 925, 
1198, 1220, 1632, 1760, 1814, 
1901, 2047, 2098. 

Haydon,Renjamin Robert. 
b. Plymouth, Eng., 1786; d. 
London, Eng. , 1846. — 353 , 
381, 901, 1677. 1871, 1998. 

Hayes, Rutherford Bireh- 
ard. b. Delaware, O., 1822 ; 
d. 1893. — 1347. 

Hazlitt, William, b. Maid- 
stone, Eng., 1778 ; d. London, 
Eng., 1830. —20, 29, 318, 383, 
406, 494, 527, 933, 1184, 1277, 
1475, 1511, 1639, 1655, 1732, 
1829, 1965, 2063, 2127. 

Heine, Heinrich. b. DUssel- 
dorf, Germany, 1799 ; d. 



JNDKX OK AUTHORS. 



315 



Paris, France, 1850. — 141, 
278, 612, 1105, 1427. 

Helper, Hinton Rowan. b. 
near Mocksville, N. C, 1820; 
—1721. 

Helps, Sir Arthur. T>. Eng- 
land, 1818; d. London, Eng., 
1875. — 1083. 

Henry, Matthew, b. Broad 
Oak, Iscoyd, Eng., 1GG2 ; d. 
Hackney, Eng., 1714. — 708, 
1800. 

Henry, Patrick, b. Studley, 
Va., 1736; d. Red Hill, Va., 
1709. — 1048, 1926. 

Herbert, George. b. in 
Montgomery Castle, Wales, 
1503 ; d. Bernerton, Wales, 
1632. — 391. 

Herschel, Sir John Fred- 
erick William, b. Slough, 
Eng., 1792; d. Collingwood, 
near Hawkhurst, Eng., 1871. 
—1686. 

Hesiod. b. at Ascra, in Boeo- 
tia, Greece. Flourished 800 
13. C— 362, 1912. 
Hewitt, Abram Stevens. 
b. Haverstravv, N. Y., 1822 ; 
—1439. 

Hey wood, John. b. in Eng- 
land in the reign of Henry 
VIII. ; d. about 1565. — 151, 
175, 310, 346, 462, 775, 776, 021, 
046, 1810. 

Higginson, Thomas Went- 
worth. b. Cambridge, 

Mass., 1823; — 71,660, 

739, 1015, 1159, 1571, 1622, 1860, 
2078. 

Hillard, George Stillman. 
b. Machias, Me., 1808; d. 
Boston, Mass., 1879.— 740, 
1050, 1202, 1748. 

Hoar, George Frisbie. b. 

Concord, Mass., 1826; 

— 880. 

Holland, Josiah Gilbert. 
1). Belchertown, Mass., 1810; 
(1. New York City, 1881.— 65, 
583, 815, 856, 876, 877, 1036, 
1151, 1360, 1413, 1400, 1676, 
1807, 2045, 2088. 



Holmes, Oliver Wendell. 

b. Cambridge, Mass., 1800 ; 

d. 1801.— ,40, 158, 581, 755, 
024, 000, 1016, 1060, 1302, 1314, 
1574, 1844, 1027, 1028, 2070. 

Hooker. Gen. Joseph* b. 
Hadley, Mass., 1819 ; d. Gar- 
den City, N. Y., 1870. — 87. 

Hooker, Richard, b. 
Heavytree, near Exeter, 
Eng., 1553-54; d. Bishops- 
bourne, near Canterbury, 
Eng., 1000. — 057, 2046. 

Hopkins, Mark. b. Stock- 
bridge, Mass., 1802 ; d. 
Williamstown, Mass., 1887. 
— 1045. 

Horace (Quintus Horatius 
Flaccus). b. Venusia (now 
Venosa), Italy, 65 B.C. ; d. 8 
B.C. — 817. 

Howell, James. b. noir 
Brecknock, Wales, 1504-6 ; 
d. 1666.-387,758, 1836. 

Howells, William Dean. 
b. Martinsville, O., 1837; 

— 837, 1178, 1464, 1403, 

1557, 1600, 1737, 2080. 

Hoyle, Edmund, b. in Eng- 
land, 1672; d. 1760. —300. 

Hugo, Victor Marie, b. 
Besancon, France, 1802 ; d, 
Paris, 1885. —58, 131, 307, 
773, 832, 851, 1582, 1916, 2026. 

Humboldt, Karl Wilhelm 
von. b. Potsdam, Germany, 
1767; d. Tegel, Germany, 
1835.— 1041, 1507. 

Hume, David. b. Edin- 
burgh, Scot., 1711 ; d. Edin- 
burgh, Scot., 1776. — 108, 187, 
830,003, 1119, 1380, 1881, 2010. 

Hunt, Helen. See JACKSON, 
Helen Maim a Fiske. 

Hunt, James Henry Leigh. 
b. London, Eng.,' 1784 ; d. 
Highgate, London, Eng., 
1850. — 306, 335,567,886, 1680, 
1832, 1864, 2081. 

Huxley, Thomas IH'iirv. 
b. Ealing, Middlesex, Eng.. 
1825 ; d. Eastbourne, 1895. - 
397,511, 605, 1129. 



316 DICTIONARY OF PKOSE QUOTATIONS. 



Irving, Washington. b. 

New York City, 1783 ; d. 
Irvington, N. Y., 1859. — 325, 
394, 673, 1770. 

Isocrates. b. 436 B.C.; d. 
338 B.C. — 1287. 

Jackson, Andrew, b. Wax- 
haw Settlement, N. and S. 
Carolina, 1767 ; d. Nashville, 
Tenn., 1845. — 1970. 

Jackson (H. H.), Helen 
Maria Fiske. b. Amherst, 
Mass., 1831; d. San Fran- 
cisco, CaL, 1885. — 2099. 

James, Henry, b. Albany, 
N. Y., 1811 ; d. Cambridge, 
Mass., 1882. —72. 

Jameson, Anna. b. Dublin, 
Ireland, 1797 ; d. London, 
Eng., I860. — 1256. 

J e ffe rso n, Thomas, b. 
Shadwell, Va., 1743 ; d. 
Monticello, Ya., 1826. —171, 
272, 470, 497, 1052, 1117, 1296, 
1300, 1303, 1307, 1312, 1315, 
1316, 1322, 1328, 1339, 1348, 

1362, 1370, 1376 1417, 1434, 
1442, 1471, 1476, 1487, 1497, 
1524, 1551, 1556, 1572, 1614, 
1618, 1628, 1674, 1717, 1722, 
1789, 1856, 1860, 1918, 1974. 

Jerrold, Hong-las William. 
b. London, Eng., 1803 ; d. 
London, Eng., 1857. — 423, 
1088, 1112, 1575, 1718. 

Johnson, Dr. Samuel, b. 
Lichfield, Eng., 1709; d. 
London, Eng., 1784. —18, 36, 
46, 97, 103, 172, 198, 221, 225, 
264, 285, 323, 355, 415, 442, 450, 
467, 475, 488, 489, 552, 592, 597, 
617, 633, 658, 706, 835, 852, 883, 
919, 922, 923, 934, 940, 955, 978, 
997, 1038, 1137, 1153, 1160, 1168, 
1179, 1209, 1246, 1252, 1345, 

1363, 1364, 1375, 1383, 1405, 
1418, 1419, 1578, 1619, 1771, 
1825, 1865, 1873, 1920, 1937, 
1946, 1966, 1989, 2000, 2019, 
2056, 2064, 2125, 2135. 

Jones, Sir William, b. Lon- 
don, Eng., 1746 ; d. Calcutta, 
India, 1794. — 396. 



J o n s o n, Ben. b. London, 
Eng., 1573-4; d. London, Eng, 
1637, — 182, 531, 657, 1482, 1853. 

Jonl>ert,Barthele my 
Catharine, b. Pont-de- 
Yaux, in Bresse, France, 
1769 ; d. Novi, Italy, 1799. — 
73, 195, 1167, 1404, 2100. 

Junius. An English writer 
(reign of George III.), 
thought to be Sir Philip 
Francis.— 303. 

Kempis, Thomas a. b. 
Kempsen, near Cologne. Ger- 
many, 1379-80 ; d. Mount St. 
Agnes, near Zwolle, Nether- 
lands, 1471. — 228, 699, 1102. 

King, Thomas Starr, b. 
New York Citv, 1824 ; d. San 
Francisco, CaL, 1864. — 59, 
444, 1257, 1783. 

Kingsley, Charles, b. Dart- 
moor, Eng., 1819: d. Eyers- 
ley, Eng. 1875. — 420, 675, 
967, 1634. 

Kipling, Rndyard. b. Bom- 
bay, India, 1865 ; — 

185,897, 1161,1978,2082. 

Kossuth, !Lajos. b.Monok, 
Zemplen, Hungary, 1802 ; d. 
1894.— 983. 

Ijabonlaye, Edonard Rene 
Lefebvre. b. Paris, France, 
1811 ; d. Paris, France, 1883. 
— 700, 750,2032. 

Ha Bmyere, Jean de. b. 
Dourdan, Normandy, 1639 ; 
d. Yersailles, France, 1696. — 
55, 170, 283, 1379, 1465, 1845, 
1990, 1999. 

t,a Fontaine, Jean de. b. 
Chateau-Thierry, France, 
1621 ; d. Paris, 1695.— 453, 696. 

Lamb, Charles, b. London, 
Eng., 1775 ; d. London, Eng., 
1834. —301, 529, 680, 1275, 1295, 
1537, 1647, 1656, 1991, 2039. 

Iiandor, Walter Savage, b. 
Ipsley Court, Warwickshire, 
Eng.,"l775; d. Florence, Italy, 
1864.— 42, 248,289, 345, 523, 
535, 716, 728, 985, 1278, 1390, 
1736, 1866, 1947, 2017. 



INDEX OF AUTHORS. 



317 



Lang, Andrew, b. Selkirk, 

Scot., 1844 ; .... —685. 
Langford, John Alfred, b. 

Birmingham, Eng., 1823; . . . 
— 2057. 

La Rochefoucauld, Fran- 
cois Due de. b. Paris, 
France, 1613; d. Paris, 
France, 1680. — 2, 16, 382, 578, 
584, 598, 664, 677, 686, 839, 844, 
853, 941, 958, 1231, 1745, 2128. 

Lecky, Williani Edward 
Hartpole. b. near Dublin, 
Ireland, 1838; .... —609, 
1127, 1294. 

lie Sage, Alain Rene. b. 
Sarzeau, France, 1668 ; d. 
Boulogne, 1747. — 510, 774, 
1103, 1180, 1501, 1708, 1931. 

Lessiug, Gotthold Eph- 
raim. b. Camenz, Germany, 
1729 ; d. Brunswick, Ger- 
many, 1781.-2011,2083. 

Lewes, George Henry, b. 
London, Eng., 1817 ; d. Wite- 
ly, Surrey, Eng., 1878. —104, 
541, 1237. 

Lincoln, Abraham, b. Har- 
din, now Larue Count v, Kv., 
1809; d. Washington/ D. C, 
1865.— 205, 260, 421, 613, 614, 
1138, 1615. 

Iiivy, Titus, b. Patavium 
(Padua), Italy, 56-61 b. c. ; 
d. about 17-20 A. D. — 178, 
1028, 1936. 

Locke, John. b. Wrington, 
Eng., 1632; d. Oates, Eng., 
1704. —474, 6S8, 1005, 1754, 
1948. 

Longfellow, Henry 'Wads- 
worth, b. Portland, Me., 
1807 ; d. Cambridge, Mass., 
1882. — 106, 458, 465, 905, 1109, 
1645, 1772, 1780, 1816, 1902, 
2129. 

Lorimer, George Claude. 
b. Scotland, 1838; . . . . — 
270, 1149, 1386, 1643. 

Louis XVIII., Stanislas 
Xavier. b. Versailles, 
France, 1755 ; d. Paris, 
France, 1824. —1513. 



Lowell, James Russell, b. 

Cambridge, Mass., 1819 ; d. 
1891. — 7, 62, 79, 350, 446, 447, 
495, 514, 534, 791, 872, 906, 937, 
1070, 1113, 1193, 1247, 1248, 
1335, 1400, 1430, 1458, 1464, 
1516, 1650, 1712, 1757, 1773, 
1795, 1808, 1840, 1891, 2030, 
2033, 2054, 2101, 2109, 2130. 

Luther, Martin, b. Eisle- 
ben, Saxony, 1483 ; d. Eisie- 
ben, Saxony, 1546. — 199, 781, 
1467, 1713, 2034. 

Lyly, John. b. Kent, Eng., 
about 1553 ; d. about 1600. — 
568, 1067. 

Lytton, Lord. See Bulvee- 
Lyttox. 

Macaulay, Thomas B ald- 
ington, b. Rothley Temple, 
Eng., 1800; d. Kensington, 
Eng., 1859. — 12, 89, 90, 142, 
288, 331, 395, 533, 647, 807, 952, 
954, 971, 1325, 1420, 1435, 1453, 
1766. 

Macdonald, George. b. 
Huntlev, Scot., 1824; .... 

— 218, 518. 
Mackintosh, Sir James, b. 

Aldourie, near Inverness, 
Scot., 1765 ; d. London, Eng., 
1832. — 889. 

Mann, Horace, b. Frank- 
lin, Mass., 1796 ; d. Yellow 
Springs, O., 1859. — 1723, 1949. 

Marcus Aurelius. b. Home, 
121 A.D. ; d. 180 A.D. —3, 132, 
268, 316, 329, 358, 478, 512, 
1095, 1282, 1522. 

Marcy, William Learned. 
b. Southbridge, Mass., 1768 ; 
d. Ballston Spa, N. Y., 1857. 
— 1791. 

Marryat, Frederick. b. 
London, Eng., 1792 ; d. 1848. 

— 640. 

Menander. b. Athens, 
Greece, 342 B.C. ; drowned in 
the harbor of the Pineus, 
Athens, Greece, 291 B.C. — 
1642. 

Mencius. b. China, 371 B.C. ; 
d. 288 B.C. — 140. 



318 DICTIONARY OF PROSE QUOTATIONS. 



Metcalf, Charles Theophi- 
lus. b. Calcutta, India, 
1785 ; d. Basingstoke, Eng., 
1846.— 588. 

Middleton, Thomas, flour- 
ished in reigns of Elizabeth, 
James I., and Charles I. ; 
d. about 1626. — 1503. 

Mill, John Stuart, b. Lon- 
don, Eng., 1806 ; d. Avignon, 
France, 1873. — 77, 429, 1317, 
1332, 1552, 1014. 

Milman, Kev. Henry Hart. 
b. London, Eng., 1791 ; d. 
1868. — 100, S47, 1210, 1327. 

Milton, John. b. London, 
Eng., 1608 ; d. London, Eng., 
1674. —304, 40S, 438, 1431, 1696, 
1950, 1964, 2102, 2136. 

Moliere (Jean Baptiste 
Poquelin). b. Paris, France, 
1622; d. 1673.-215,513. 

Montaigne, Michel Sei- 

fueur de. b. Perigord, 
ranee, 1533 ; d. Perigord, 
France, 15S9-92. — 52, 196, 
245, 582, 659, 756, 1569, 1672. 

Morris, William, b. Eng- 
land, 1S34; d. 1896. — 563. 

Musonius Rufus, Cains. 
about 70 A. d. — 1581. 

Napoleon, L.ouis. b. Paris, 
France, 1808 ; d. Chiselhurst, 
Eng., 1S73.— 449. 

Nelson, Horatio, b. Burn- 
ham Thorpe, Norfolk, Eng., 
1758; d. 1805. — 461. 

Newman, John Henry, b. 
London, Eng., 1S01 ; d. 1890. 
— 82. 

Norton, Caroline Elizabeth 
Sarah Sheridan, b. Lon- 
don, Eng., 1808; d. 1877.— 
1009. 

Oliphant, Margaret (Wil- 
son), b. Liverpool, Eng., 
1S2S; d. 1897. — 639. 

Ossoli, Margaret Fuller. 
b. Cambridgeport, Mass., 
1810; d. off Fi^e Island 
Beach, N.Y., 1850. — 863. 

Ouida (Louise de la Ramee). 
b. Bury St. Edmund's, Eng., 



1840 ;.... — 1176, 1222, 1641, 
1684, 1830. 

Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso). 
b. Sulmo (Sulmona), ninety 
miles east of Rome, 43 b. c; 
d. at Toini, 18 A. D. — 298, 
1698. 

Paine, Thomas, b. Thet- 
ford, Eng., 1737 ; d. New 
York City, 1S09. — 1801. 

Palev, William, b. Peter- 
borough, Eng., 1743 ; d. 1805. 
— 1738. 

Pairvasis. b. Greece ; d. about 
460 B. C — 2049. 

Parker, Edward Griffin. 
b. Boston, Mass., 1825 ; d. 
New York City, 1868. — 1326. 

Parker, Theodore, b. Lex- 
ington, Mass., 1810 ; d. Flor- 
ence, Italy, I860.— 302, 366, 
1443, 1455, 1670, 1806, 2065. 

Parkhurst, Charles Henry. 
b. Framingham, Mass., 1842; 
.... —376,792, 1451, 1697. 

Patmore, Coventry. b. 
Woodford, Essex, 1823; d. 
1896. — 1358, 1395, 1446, 1544, 
2084. 

Pepys, Samuel, b. 1633; d. 
1703.— 342, 364, 6S3, 1162. 

Phaedrus. Flourished 
about 20 a. p. — 610. 

Phelps, Elizabeth Stnart 
(Mrs. Ward), b. Mass., 1844 ; 
. . . .—96. 

Phillips, Charles, b. Sligo, 
Ireland, about 1788 ; d. 1859. 
— 1333. 

Phillips, Wendell, b. Bos- 
ton, Mass., 1811 ; d. Boston, 
Mass., 18S4. — 8, 486, 670, 749, 
824, 931, 1006, 1139, 1224, 1318, 
1388, 1491, 1512, 1514, 1517, 
1583, 1601, 1796, 1908, 1909. 

Piatt, Donn. b. Cincinnati, 
O., 1819; d. 1891. — 805, 1060, 
1953. 

Pilpay (or Bidpai). flour- 
ished several centuries be- 
fore Christ. — 1623. 

Pinckney, Charles Cotes- 
worth, b. Charleston, S.(\, 



INDEX OF Al 






1746; d. Chariest :. 8. C. 
1825.— : 

Pinkney, William, b. Axi- i 

na 4 ; d. Wash- 

ing: -'.—1323. 

Pitt, William I of 

Chatham. b. Boconi 
Ei _ Eng., 

177-. - S, 255, 1027, 12 

Plato. ; . - 

; d. 
A7SB. e. — : 
33S, 1104, 1730. 
PI a utus , Ti t u B M ac eras. 

- rsina, II ly, about 254 
B.C. ; d. 184 B. c — 

701, 1719. 

Pliny the Flder Caina Plin- | 
ins Secnndus). b. Verona 
r Conioi, Italy, 23 a. j>. ; 
A.i'. — : : . : 37. 

Pliny the Younger (Cains 
Plinius Csecilius Becundi 
b. Yerona (or Com 11 
61 or 
Italy. 110 a. D. — 315, 665. 

Plutarch, b. Chaeronea, in 
Boeotia, Greee-r. 45-E ; d. 
probably Chaeronea, in 
Boeoti 120 — 

9, 161, 299, 338. i V 7 992, 
1011. 104 . 1437, : 

Poe, Edgar Allan, b. 
ton. Mass d. Balti- 

more. M :.. 18J — . :_^ 

Ponipadour, <le. 3Irue. 
Jeanne Antoinette Pois- 
«.oii Mai I 

France, 1721 5 I. 1764. — a 

Pope, Alexander, b. Lon- I 
b. Twicken- ! 
haii.. Eng., 1744.— U 

Porter. >oah. b. Farming- 
ton, Conn.. :-._ — 

Prescott, William. Hick- 
ling, born Salem, M n., 

— 144. 312. 
Priestlev, Joseph, b. F: 

head. Eng., 1733 ; d. North- 

Ull :.— 

1334, 



Publius Stttls. b. Syrii 
B.C.— 43. :, . 177. 183, 626, 
1199. 1494. 

P u r c fa a B . SamaeL I 

TL 

d. If.: — 

Pythagoras, b. Samos, 

■f..< . — : ' . 
Rabelais, Francois. b. 

Li:: :■:.. F: .-,:.-. r. :-« 
Paris. 1 1553.— 

_ 

124" :. -. 
Riehter, Jean Paul Fried- 
rieli. 

m: 1763; dL Bairenth. 

::.:. — _::. :~ 

Robertson. Frederick 
William, b. London. Eng., 
1816; d. Brighton. F 
— 968. 

Robinson, John. b. Eng- 
land, 1 ; 7 : : 1 - D . M eth- 
erlands. 1 _" — : 

Roland, 3Janon Jeanne 
Phlipon. b. I .r:?. France, 
1754 ;<L I axis, France ." ! 
— 1 

Rosebery, Lord Archi- 
'.': 1 _ : ". ■ ■ F : : i_ r ; 5 r . ':• . 
1847; .—1315. 

Rousseau. Jean- Jacques. 
b. Si ::i : and, 

1712 ; d. EnnenonYille, nc 11 
I rfe 1 nee. 1778. — 118, 
12 .. 

Roux, Joseph. b. TiiLe. 
France, 1834 : . . . - — 477, 

Ruskin. John. b. London, 
Eng., 1819; d. 1900. — GO. 14, 
76. 1 - - 747. 

800, 868, S78. 911. 949. 988, 

io:_ : 14, :. S 14 2, 

: _ . 1: 

1696 

1874, 1873 - - • 

2085. 2103. 2115. 21 

li. Sheik M<>-lihed- 
Din. 

iz. Per- 
sia, 1291. — k 1586. 



320 



DICTIONARY OF PROSE QUOTATIONS. 



Sallust, Caius Crispus. b. 

Amiternum, Italy, 86 B.C.; 
d. Rome, Italy, 34 B. c. — 169. 

Sanborn, Katherine Ab- 
bott, b. Hanover, N. H., 
1839 ;....— 440, 1660. 

Schaff, Philip. b. Coire, 
Switzerland, 1819; d. 1893. 
— 1562. 

Schiller, Johann Chris- 
toph Friedrich von. b. 
Marbach, Germany, 1759 ; d. 
Weimar, Germany, 1805.— 
134, 960, 963, 1975. 

Scott, Sir Walter, b. Edin- 
burgh, Scot., 1771 ; d. Ab- 
botsford, Scot., 1832. —548, 
1010, 1267, 1611, 1749. 

Seeley, Sir John Robert, b. 
London,Eng.,1834; d. 3S95. 

Selden, John. b. Salvington, 
Eng., 1584 ; d. London, Eng., 
1654.— 410, 471, 864, 979, 1042, 
1532. 

Seneca, Lucius Annseus. b. 
Cordova, Spain, about 7 B.C. ; 
d. Rome, Italy, 65 A. d. — 
414, 434, 743, 932, 1204, 1725, 
1774. 

Seward, William Henry. 
b. Florida, New York, 1801 ; 
d. Auburn, New York, 1872. 
— 256, 1029. 

Shaftesbury, Anthony 
Ashley Cooper, b. Lon- 
don, Eng., 1671; d. Naples, 
1713.-528,1822. 

Shakespeare, William, b. 
Stratford - on - Avon, Eng. , 
1564; d. Stratford-on-Avon, 
Eng., 1616. —10, 26, 56, 81, 94, 
98, 113, 123, 126, 162, 179, 184, 
188, 189, 194, 208, 235, 243, 247, 
251, 262, 279, 309, 311, 347, 352, 
356, 377, 378, 390, 403, 401, 405, 
411, 417, 424, 427, 451, 469, 472, 
487, 496, 506, 515, 539, 546, 549, 
559, 562, 565, 569, 589, 602, 604, 
644, 651, 654, 676, 678, 689, 691, 
705, 711, 732, 733, 741, 742, 746, 
760, 761, 762, 767, 777, 783, 784, 
787, 790, 793, 795, 819, 820, 833, 
841, 845, 865, 873, 885, 900, 914, 



916, 928, 939, 953, 964, 970, 9S4 
989, 991, 993, 1000, 1021, 1030! 
1032, 1033, 1034, 1061, 1062, 
1077, 1081, 1105, 1106, U10, 
1114, 1122, 1123, 1124, 1125, 
1128, 1131, 1132, 1133, 1134, 
1136, 1140, 1141, 1142, 1144, 
1145, .1150, 1152, 1154, 1157, 
1171, 1175, 1183, 1185, 1186, 
1197, 1200, 1215, 1217, 1241, 
1249, 1258, 1259, 1260, 1268, 
1272, 1273, 1288, 1290, 1297, 
1305, 1308, 1313, 1319, 1329 
1351, 1359, 1372, 1373, 1394 
1396, 1408, 1422, 1450, 1468, 
1479, 1483, 1488, 1495, 1525, 
1533, 1547, 1553, 1566, 1567, 
1570, 1576, 1588, 1595, 1630, 
1681, 1683, 1685, 1714, 1731, 
1746, 1750, 1764, 1775, 1782, 
1787, 1817, 1826, 1838, 1847, 
1848, 1849, 1863, 1867, 1870, 
1876, 1893, 1903, 1917, 1924, 
1932, 1977, 1985, 2002, 2003, 
2004, 2012, 2015, 2027, 2038, 
2050, 2051, 2052, 2060, 2066, 
2067, 2068, 2086, 2087, 2104, 
2105, 2106, 2131. 

Shelley, Percy Bysshe. b. 
near Horsham, Eng., 1792; 
drowned in the Gulf of 
Spezia, Italy, 1822. —1091, 
1428, 1596, 1669. 

Shepard, Thomas, b. Tow- 
cester, Eng., 1605 ; d. Cam- 
bridge, Mass., 1649. — 341. 

Sheridan, Richard Brins- 
ley. b. Dublin, Ireland, 
1751 ; d. London, Eng., 1816. 
— 39, 78, 127, 204, 718, 753, 
956, 1276, 1336, 1510, 1986. 

Sidney, Sir Philip, b. Pens- 
hurst, Eng., 1554 ; d. Arn- 
heim, Holland, 1586. — 190, 
240, 1762, 1839. 

Simonides. b. at Julis, in 
the Island of Ceos, about 556 
B.C. ; d. 467 B.C. — 1342. 

Smiles, Samuel, b. Had- 
dington, Scot., 1816; .... — 
603, 904. 

Smith, Adam. b. Kirkaldy, 
Fifeshire, Scot., 1723; d. 



INDEX OF AUTHORS. 



321 



Edinburgh, Scot., 1790.— 
1007, 1652. 

Sinith, Alexander, b. Kil- 
marnock, Scot., 1830 ; d. 
Wardie, Scot., 1867.-5,319, 
726, 1447, 1662. 1800. 

Smith, Sydney, b. Wood- 
ford, Eng., 1771 ; d. London, 
Eng., 1845. — 38G, 520, 697, 
972, 1089, 1515, 1861, 2069. 

Socrates, b. Athens, Greece, 
470 b. c; d. Athens, Greece, 
399-400 B. C. —2021, 2035. 

Sophocles, b. Attica, Colo- 
nus, 495 B. c.j d. 406 B. c — 
63, 1788. 

South, Robert, b. Hackney, 
Eng., 1633 ; d. London, Eng., 
1716. — 105, 788. 

Spencer, Herbert, b. Derby, 
Eng., about 1820 ;....— 

114, 484, 591, 635, 1229, 1604, 
1653, 1654, 1961, 1976. 

Spenser, Edmund, b. Lon- 
don, Eng., 1553 ; d. London, 
Eng., 1559.— 1751. 

Stael-Holstein, Anne Lou- 
ise Germaine Necker, 
Mine. de. b. Paris, France, 
1766; d. Paris, France, 1817.— 
671, 1519, 1858. 

Stanley, Arthur Penrhyn. 
b. Cheshire, Eng., 1815; d. 
1881. — 734, 2013. 

Stedinan, Edmund Clar- 
ence, b. Hartford, Conn., 
1833; .... —287, 441, 540, 
1432. 

Steele, Sir Richard, b. Dub- 
lin, Ireland, 1671-2 ; d. Llan- 
gunnor, Wales, 1729. — 92, 

115, 650, 1008, 1082, 1548, 1833. 
Stephen, Leslie, b. Kensing- 
ton, Eng., 1832; . . . . — 
393. 

Stephens, Alexander Ham- 
ilton, b. Taliaferro County, 
Ga., 1812; d. 1883. — 1726. 

Sterling:, John. b. Isle of 
Bute, Scot., 1806 ; d. Ventor, 
Isle of Wight, Eng., 1844. — 
448, 929, 999, 1126, 1340. 

Sterne, Laurence, b. Clon- 



mel, Ireland, 1713 ; d. Lon- 
don, Eng., 1768. — 180, 258, 
1289, 1387, 1489, 2048. 

Stevens, Abel. b. Philadel- 
phia, Penn., 1815; d. 1897. 
— 1436. 

Stevens, Thaddeus. b. 
Danville, Vt., 1792 ; d. Wash- 
ington, D. C, 1868. — 722. 

Stevenson, Robert Louis 
Balfour. b. Edinburgh, 
Scot., 1850; d. Island of 
Samoa, 1894. — 564, 139 8, 
1850. 

Stewart, Dugald. b. Edin- 
burgh, Scot., 1753; d. Edin- 
burgh, Scot., 1828. — 1294. 

Stillingfleet, Edward, b. 
Cranbourn, Dorset, Eng., 
1635 ; d. 1699. — 638. 

Stoddard, Elizabeth (Bar- 
stow), b. Matt apoisett , 
Mass., 1823 ; . . . . —1758. 

Story, Joseph, b. Marble- 
head, Mass., 1779 ; d. Cam- 
bridge, Mass., 1845. — 896. 

Stowe, Harriet Elizabeth 
Beecher. b. Litchfield, 
Conn., 1812 ; d. Hartford, 
Conn., 1896. — 1066, 1768, 1959, 
2041. 

Sumner, Charles, b. Boston, 
Mass., 1811 ; d. Washington, 
D. C, 1874. —84, 608, 1727. 

Swift, Jonathan, b. Dublin, 
Ireland, 1667 ; d. Dublin, 
Ireland, 1745. — 166, 167, 192, 
291, 634, 1072, 1337, 1438, 1536, 
1633, 1638. 

Swinburne, Algernon 
Charles, b. London, Eng., 
1837 ;....— 135. 

Tacitus, Cains Cornelius. 
b. Interamna (modern Ter- 
ni), Italy, about 60 ; d. about 
120. — 40. 

Taine, Hippolyte Adolphe. 
b. Youziers, France, 1828 ; 
d. 1893. — 1657. 

Taylor, Edward T. b. 
Richmond, Va., Dec. 25, 
1793 ; d. Boston, Mass., 1871. 
— 1659. 



322 DICTIONARY OF PROSE QUOTATIONS. 



Terence, b. Carthage, about 
195 B.C. ; d. about 158 B.C. — 
67, 649, 898, 1868. 

Tertullian. b. at Carthage, 
about 160 a.d. ; d. 240 A.D. 

— 148. 

Thackeray, Aime Isabella 
(Mrs. Ritchie), b. London, 
Eng., 1842; .... —1409. 

Thackeray, William Make- 
peace, b. Calcutta, India, 
1811 ; d. London, Eng., 1863. 

— 348, 401, 543, 627, 748, 842, 
1022, 1107, 1111, 1456, 1608, 
1739, 1740, 1815, 1904. 

Thales. b. Miletus, Asia 
Minor. Flourished seventh 
century B.C. — 828, 1485. 

Thoreau, Henry David. 
b. Concord, Mass., 1817 ; d. 
Concord, Mass., 1862. — 628, 
768, 1304. 

Thucydides. b. Attica, 
Greece, 471 B.C. ; d. about 
401 B.C. — 866. 

Titcomh, Timothy. See 
Josiah Gilbert Holland. 

Tolstoi, Count Lyof Niko- 
layevitch. b. Yasnaya 
Polyana, Tula, Russia, 1828 ; 
. . . .—521, 1365, 1381, 1554, 
1563, 1980, 2117. 

Trollope, Anthony, b. Lon- 
don, Eng., 1815 ; d. London, 
Eng., 1882. — 407. 

Upton, George Putnam, 
b. Roxbury, Mass., 1834 ; 
. . . . — 13. 

Vaughan, Henry, b. Breck- 
nockshire, Wales, 1621 ; d. 
1695.— 2107. 

Voltaire, Francois Marie 
Aronet de. b. Paris, 
France, 1694 ; d. Paris, 
France, 1778. — 703, 811, 945, 
1399, 1412, 1958, 2137. 

Wallace, Lew. b. Brock- 
ville, Ind., 1827; . . . .— 
292, 595, 712, 2089. 

Walpole, Sir Robert, b. 
Houghton, Eng., 1676; d. 
1745.— 553, 1763. 

Walton, Izaak. b. Stafford, 



Eng., 1593 ; d. Winchester, 
Eng., 1683. — 44, 173, 375, 571, 
973, 1078, 1094, 1170. 

Warner, Charles Dudley. 
b. Plainfield, Mass., 1829 ; 
d. 1900. — 1243, 1261, 1747, 
1905, 2037, 2090. 

Washington, George. b. 
Pope's Creek, near Bridge's 
Creek, Va., 1732 ; d. Mount 
Vernon, Va., 1799. — 653, 723, 
821, 1050, 1371, 1384, 1577. 

Wasson, David Atwood. 
b. West Brooksville, Me., 
1823 ; d. West Medford, 
Mass., 1887. —524. 

Watson, John ("Ian Mac- 
laren"). b. Essex,Eng.,1850 ; 
.... — 290, 693, 1242, 1469. 

Webster, Daniel, b. Salis- 
bury (now Franklin), N.H., 
1782 ; d. Marshfield, Mass., 
1852 ; 31, 32. 85, 143, 222, 273, 
324, 445, 452, 537, 615, 661, 724, 
892, 938, 1051. 1218, 1238, 1353, 
1366, 1602, 1687, 1809, 1894, 
1971, 1972. 

Webster, John. b. England, 
about 1570 ; d. 1638.— 577. 

Webster, Noah. b. Hart- 
ford, Conn., 1758 ; d. New 
Haven, Conn., 1843. — 1017, 
1459, 1955. 

Weiss, John. b. Boston., 
Mass., 1818 ; d. Boston, Mass., 
1879. — 1023. 

Wellington, Dnke of 
(Arthur Wellesley). b. Dan- 
gan Castle, Ireland, 1769 ; 
d. Walmer Castle, Eng., 
1852. —2028, 2029. 

Wesley, John. b. Epworth, 
Eng., 1730 ; d. London, Eng., 
1791. — 233. 

Whately, Kichard (Arch- 
bishop), b. London, Eng., 
1787; d. 1863. —2091. 

Whewell, William, b. Eng- 
land, 1795; d. 1866.— 86. 

Whipple, Edwin Percy. 
b. Gloucester, Mass., 1819 ; 
d. Boston, Mass, 1886. — 99, 
239, 948, 1709, 2108. 



INDEX OF AUTHORS. 



323 



Whitefield, George. b. 

Gloucester, Eng., 1714; d. 

Newbury port, Mass., 1770. — 

1382, 1688. 
Wliittier, John Greenleaf. 

b. Haverhill, Mass., 1807 ; 

d. 1892. — 1181. 
Wilson, Thomas, b. Bur- 
ton, Chester, Eng., 1663; d. 

Sodor and Man, Great 

Britain, 1755.— 2138. 
Winter, AVilliam. b. 

Gloucester, Mass., 1836 ; 

. . . .—544. 



Winthrop, Robert Charles. 
b. Boston, Mass., 1809; d. 
1894. — 244, 616, 1794. 

Wolfe, Janies. b. Wester- 
ham, Eng., 1726 ; d. Quebec, 
Canada, 1759. — 357. 

Wotton, Sir Henry. b. 
Boughton Malherbe, Eng., 
1568; d. Eaton, Eng., 1639.— 
385, 763, 1535. 

Wycherley, William. b. 
Clive, Eng., about 1640; d. 
London, Eng., 1715.— 109, 

.2070 



INDEX TO QUOTATIONS 



The references designate the numbers of the quotations. 



Abilities, limits of our, 1. 
Ability, to conceal one's, 2. 
to investigate systemati- 
cally, 3. 
A-borrowing goes a-sorrowing, 

159. 
Above, affections on things, 22. 
Absence sweeteneth friend- 
ship, 387. 
Abundance, he shall have, 4. 
Accounts, not in my power to 

balance, 119. 
Acquaintance, people for a vis- 
iting, 39. 
Action, a single lovely, 7. 

Puritans gave the world, 8. 
suit the, to the word, 377. 
the first part of oratory, 9. 
the outlet of emotion, 6. 
Admiration from fastidious 
critics, 12. 
is an art, 13. 
Adulation is not of more ser- 
vice to, 573. 
Adversary, oh that mine, had 

written a book, 157. 
Adversity hard upon a man, 14. 
is the blessing of the New 

Testament, 1500. 
no education like, 15. 
of our best friends, 16. 
Advice that is wanted is, 18. 

to a self-conceited man, 19. 
Affectation necessary to the 

mind, 20. 
Affection, assaults of, 81. 



Affection of young ladies is of 

rapid growth, 748. 
Affections are our life, 21. 

on things above, 22. 
Affliction may smile again, 

1775- 
Afflictions, other people's, 275. 
Age a matter of feeling, 25. 
best in four things, 23. 
every, has its pleasures, 24. 
is the worst malady, 1310. 
of chivalry is gone, 216. 
satirists describe the, 115. 
smack of, in you, 26. 
will kill me some day, 1310. 
Agrippa, the dome of, 395. 
Aimlessness, shiftlessness an- 
other name for, 1697. 
Almighty dollar, the, 394. 
Alonso of Aragon, 23. 
Ambition can creep, 27. 

has its disappointments, 28. 
more heroic than avarice, 
29. 
America has furnished a Wash- 
ington, 31. 
most memorable epoch in 
the history of, 893. 
American, if I were an, as I 
am an Englishman, 66. 
attempts to haul down the 

flag, 30. 
does not carry the, 1115. 
I was born an, 32. 
Americans, good, when they 
die, go, 1346. 



324 



INDEX TO QUOTATIONS. 



325 



Amiableness the object of love, 

33. 
Amusement is study, 35. 
Amusements keep people from 

vice, 36. 
Ancestors are very good kind 
of folks, 39. 
man who has, 37. 
think of your, 40. 
Anecdotes, authenticity of 

leading, 100. 
Anger, flame of, 42. 
is a bow, 41. 
of lovers, 43. 
Angler, if he be an honest, 571. 
Angling is somewhat like poe- 
try, 44. 
Animals, structure of, 86. 
Annals are blank, 45. 
Antipathy, the name of, 46. 
Anxiety, covetousness is at- 
tended with, 277. 
unnecessary, 48. 
Apologizing is rarely cured, 49. 
Apology is egotism, 49. 
Apparel, fashion wears out 

more, 539. 
Appearance, judge not accord- 
ing to the, 51. 
Appearances are deceitful, 50. 
Appetite comes while eating, 
52. 
comes with eating, 426. 
man given to, 53. 
Applause of the crowd, 92. 

the spur of noble minds, 54. 
Apprehend, worse to, than to 

suffer, 55. 
Apprehension, how like a god 

in, 56. 
Arbiter of every one's fortune, 

57. 
Architecture a creation of in- 
tellect, 59. 
is the art which so disposes 
and adorns, 60. 
Argument, a knock-down, 61. 
available with an east 

wind, 906. 
for a week, 964. 
truth is the strongest, 63. 
Arguments smelt of the lamp, 
1011. 



Aristocracy, a social life which 
worships money is an, 65. 
is the eminence of men, 64. 
Armies swore terribly in, 1489. 
Arms, I never would lay down 
my, 66. 
try everything before, 67. 
Army with banners, 124. 
Arrows of sarcasm, 1635. 
Art, admiration is an, 13. 
can never give rules, 68. 
conscious utterance of 

thought is, 70. 
is an absolute mistress, 69. 
is higher than nations, 71. 
is the shadow of humanity, 

72. 
represents things truly, 74. 
the beautiful the most use- 
ful in, 73. 
Artist paints his own nature, 
75. 
the greatest, 76. 
Ascents from particular to 

general, 77. 
Ash pours out moans, 1783. 
Ashamed, man who is not, of 

himself, 1687. 
Aspersion upon parts of 

speech, 78. 
Aspiration, love taking the 
form of, 517. 
sees one side, 79. 
Ass, foes tell me I am an, 1681. 

will carry his load, 829. 
Assassination never changed 

history, 80. 
Assaults of affection, 81. 
Assent a mental assertion, 82. 
Assertion not a fact, 83. 
Assiduity, marvellous, 84. 
Association, objects attained 
by, 85. 
of men who will not quar- 
rel, 1524. 
Assumption of a final cause, 

86. 
Atheist, man declares himself 

an, 88. 
Athens, immortal influence of, 

89. 
Atomies, as easy to count as, 
1110. 



326 DICTIONARY OF PROSE QUOTATIONS. 



Attachment, an unrequited, 

1978. 
Attention, have so much to 

spare, 91. 
Attestation of a reasonable 

man, 92. 
Attitude, proper, in life, 93. 
Attraction of my good parts, 

94. 
Attribution to God of love, 95. 
Attrition, people trained by, 

96. 
Audacity the last refuge of 

guilt, 97. 
Augmentation of the Indies, 

98. 
Austerity beyond bounds of 

humanity, 99. 
Authenticity of leading anec- 
dotes, 100. 
Author, give the, his due, 1532. 
portrayed in his works, 

102. 
Authors' lives not uniform, 104. 
Authors, old, to read, 23. 
Autumn comes like a warrior, 

106. 
Avarice, ambition more heroic 

than, 29. 
is a universal passion, 108. 
Aversion, nothing is stronger 

than, 109. 
Awkwardness has no forgive- 
ness, 110. 
Azure, a little speck of, 111., 

Babble of outlandish words, 
112. 

Bachelor, I would die a, 113. 

Bachelorhood, keeping in, 114. 

Backbiters assign their de- 
scriptions, 115. 

Backbone of conscience, 116. 

Backslidings are many, 117. 

Backwards, we go, 118. 

Balances, cultivation has its, 
292. 

Ballads, permitted to make all 
the, 121. 

Balm in Gilead, 122. 

Balsam the usuring senate 
pours, 123. 

Banners, army with, 124. 



Barbarians, having no lan- 
guage, 646. 
Battle, a charming thing, 125. 
a, lost, 2028. 
a, won, 2028. 

has cut many a Gordian 
knot, 2024. 
Battles, god of, on the side of 

the strongest, 608. 
Beans, succulent pork and, 

796. 
Bear-baiting, Puritans hated, 

1420. 
Beard, get rid of that, 127. 

he that hath a, 126. 
Beauty, always the possibility 
of, 1451. 
confers a benefit, 131. 
confers happiness on all, 

134. 
in everything, 133. 
is a welcome guest, 130. 
is based on reason, 128. 
of a plastic work, 1657. 
source of, 132, 
without expression, 129. 
without grace, 129. 
worship of, must be sim- 
ple, 135. 
Beech, the, shrieks, 1783. 
Beeches, what are these, 1927. 
Begging, gets more with, 742. 
Beginning, a good, 136. 
Behavior, laws of, yield, 137. 
Belief consists in, 1962. 
Beliefs become absolutely 

fixed, 290. 
Believe those whom we do not 

know, 1937. 
Benefactors, are they not 

malefactors, 1142. 
Benefit and an injury, distin- 
guish between, 1683. 
Benevolence is the habitation 
of man, 140. 
is the supreme ideal, 139. 
Bible does not require peace 
at any price, 1367. 
is a book of special revela- 
tion, 143. 
is the family chronicle of 

the Jews, 141. 
would alone suffice, 142. 



INDEX TO QUOTATIONS. 



327 



Biography, no writing so popu- 
lar as, 144. 
Bird shall carry the voice, 14G. 
Birds, catch old, with chaff, 
193. 
of this year, 145. 
Birth, death borders upon 
our, 280. 
nobility of, abateth indus- 
try, 1280. 
Blessings under the shape of 

pains, 147. 
Blood of the martyrs, 148. 
Blot in the heart, 149. 
Blush in the face, 149. 
Body, human, is a machine, 

1129. 
Bone, bred in the, 151. 
Book, dainties bred in a, 1547. 
no, is worth anything 

which is, 1546. 
oh that mine adversary 
had written a, 157. 
Books are legacies, 152. 

are the best things, 156. 
men that will make you, 

155. 
no time in life when, do 

not influence, 153. 
the most influential, works 

of fiction, 564. 
true university a collection 
of, 154. 
Bores, all men are, 158. 
Borrowing, he that goes a, 159. 
Boston help reads Dante, 796. 

the evacuation of, 880. 
Boy is the most unmanage- 
able, 160. 
Boys, what they should learn, 

161. 
Brain may devise laws, 162. 
I > rains, poor, for drinking, 411. 
Brass, as sounding, 207. 
Bread and butter, won't quar- 
rel with, 166. 
Bread, cast thy, upon the 
waters, 165. 
is the staff of life, 167. 
Breath, spare your, to cool, 

168. 
Bribery, facility is worse than, 
507. 



Bribery less shameful to be 

overcome by arms than 

by, 169. 
Buffoonery is want of wit, 170. 
Bullets, paper, of the brain, 

841. 
Bulwarks against anti-repub- 
lican tendencies, 171. 
Burdens, money and time the 

heaviest, 172. 
Burns, nothing but lionize 

him, 1079. 
Business, despatch is the soul 

of, 344. 
everybody's, is nobody's, 

173. 
might be everything, 262. 
overtake his, 333. 
unembarrassed by, 183. 
Busybodies, tattlers also and, 

174. 
Butcher, lay on like a, 953. 
Butter would not melt in her 

mouth, 175. 

Calamity, fortune not satisfied 
with inflicting one, 177. 
is a mighty leveller, 176. 

Calculations, upset in Avar, 178. 

Calendars, events the best, 1057. 

Calumny, best answer to, 1384. 
thou shalt not escape, 179. 

Candidate, we choose the avail- 
able, 107. 

Cannon, debts are like, 323. 

Cant of hypocrites, 180. 

Cants Avhich are canted, 180. 

Capacity of jelly, 83. 

Capital, when labor quarrels 
with, 1002. 

Caprice, freedom is not, 611. 

Captain, you have lost a good, 
659. 

Capulets, tomb of the, 729. 

Cards, gambling with, 652. 

Care an enemy to life, 184. 

'11 kill a cat, hang sorrow, 

182. 
want of, does damage, 181. 

Case, doth ease a grievous, 190. 

Cases, circumstances alter, 227. 

Caste, keep to his own, 185. 

Castle, man's house is his, 186. 



328 DICTIONARY OF PROSE QUOTATIONS. 



Cat, care' 11 kill a, 182. 
Cause, final assumption of a, 
86. 
noble, doth ease, 190. 
that wit is in other men, 
188. 
Causes which do not appear, 
187. 
why and wherefore, 189. 
Cautious, the, seldom err, 191. 
Censure is the tax a man pays, 

192. 
Chaff , catch old birds with, 193. 
hid in two bushels of, 194. 
Chance favors the prudent, 195. 
wisdom commits itself to, 
196. 
Change is constant, 197. 
is inevitable, 197. 
itself is nothing, 198. 
Chapel, devil would build a, 

199. 
Chapter, to the end of the, 200. 
Character, fate is, 544. 

founded on principle, 1480. 

is a fact, 201. 

is higher than intellect, 

203. 
is money, 1211. 
leave my, behind me, 204. 
must be kept bright, 202. 
Chariot, a gay, gilt, 1008. 
Charity, with, for all, 205. 

shall cover sins, 206. 
Charms, she works by, 311. 
Chaste as ice, 179. 
Chastity, ice of, is in them, 
208. 
of honor, 823. 
Cheated, impossible for a man 

to be, 209. 
Cheerfulness fills the mind 
with serenity, 1196. 
throws sunlight, 211. 
Chide, I will, no breather but 

myself, 1685. 
Child inherits its parents' 
nature, 799. 
making of character in a, 
1228. 
Childhood, a happy, is the 
pledge of, 212. 
has no forebodings, 213. 



Children, no longer any, 215. 

sweeten labors, 214. 
Chivalry, age of, is gone, 216. 
Choice between truth and 
repose, 217. 
where there is no, 218. 
Christ the one great typical 
man, 965. 
the' people's friend, 967. 
Christianity, first aspect in 
which, 609. 
immortality the discovery 

of, 874. 
is the bringing of God to 

man, 220. 
is the ideal form of man- 
hood, 219. 
teaches us to love our 

neighbor, 1270. 
the highest humanity, 835. 
Christian, self-sacrifice of the, 

1690. 
Christians, all, agree in essen- 
tial articles, 221. 
should never avenge inju- 
ries, 1993. 
the accent of, 10. 
whatever makes men good, 
222. 
Christmas, all ought to come 

home at, 223. 
Church, dangerous to be of no, 
225. 
seed of the, 148. 
sincerely Catholic, 224. 
where God built a, 199. 
Churchyard, a little country, 

729. 
Circumlocution office was be- 
forehand, 226. 
Circumstances alter cases, 227. 
do not make a man weak, 
228. 
Cities, if, were built by sound 

of music, 229. 
Civet, give me an ounce, 873. 
Civilization is cheap, 116. 

obeys the same law as the 

ocean, 231. 
the power of good women, 
230. 
Cleanliness is next to godli- 
ness, 233 



INDEX TO QUOTATIONS. 



329 



Cleanness of body was ever 

esteemed, 232. 
Cleverness is serviceable for 

everything, 234. 
Clothes, devil may wear good, 

792. 
f Clouds, spirits of the wise sit 

in the, 235. 
Cobwebs out of my eyes, 23G. 
Coin, silver and gold not the 

only, 237. 
Color is the holiest gift, 238. 
Comfort is the god of this 

world, 239. 
Common cannot be the heroic, 

802. 
Commons, faithful to their sys- 
tem, 889. 
Company of men with powers, 

270. 
to keep good, 241. 
Comparisons are always odi- 
ous, 242. 
are odorous, 243. 
Compass, no points of the, 244. 
Compatriots, all men my, 245. 
Compensation the mother of 

progress, 1490. 
Competency lives longer, 247. 
Compliments in their place 

only, 248. 
Conceit is the most incurable 

disease, 249. 
wiser in his own, 250. 
Conclusion, most lame and 

impotent, 251. 
Conclusions, victims of their 

own, 774. 
Condition which confronts us, 

252. 
Conference makes a ready 

man, 253. 
Confession, suicide is, 1S09. 
Confidence is a plant of slow 

growth, 255. 
Conflict between opposing 

forces, 256. 
Conqueror, no man is such a, 

as, 1G67. 
Conscience, backbone of, 116. 
is the most elastic mate- 
rial. 257. 
who has not a, 258. 



Consecrate, wo cannot, this 

ground, 259. 
Consecration is going out in 

the world, 250. 
1 Consistency is the hobgoblin, 

261. 
thou art a jewel, 969. 
Constancy, men of such, 262. 
Constitution, no higher law 

than the, 1029. 
Contemporaries, receive from, 

full homage, 971. 
Contempt is a kind of gan- 
grene, 264. 
is never forgiven, 263. 
Contentment consisteth not 

in, 265. 
Conversation is the music of 

the mind, 266. 
Co-operation, we are born for, 

268. 
Cost is the father of progress, 

1490. 
Counsel, who cannot give good, 

271. 
Counsellors, the multitude of, 

1631. 
Countenance, a merry heart 

maketh a cheerful, 210. 
Country, I tremble for my, 272. 
our, our whole country, 

and nothing but our 

country, 273. 
our, right or wrong, 1116. 
Courage enough and to spare, 

275. 
is no virtue, 274. 
Courtesy, time enough for, 276. 
Courts, "a day in thy, 314. 
Covetousness is attended with 

solicitude, 277. 
Coward, a, on instinct, 928. 
he who fears to venture is 

a, 278. 
is worse than a cup of 

sack, 279. 
Cowardice, falsehood is, 522. 

the reproach of, 46. 
Cowards, a plague of all. 
Cradle stands in the grave, 2S0. 
Creation, had I been present 

at the, 17. 
is great, 281. 



330 DICTIONARY OF PROSE QUOTATIONS. 



Creed, your opinions your, 282. 

Crimes, poverty is the mother 
of, 283. 

Critic, a, must accept what is 
best, 287. 

Critics, admiration from fas- 
tidious, 12. 
are the men who have 
failed, 286. 

Criticism, cant of, 180. 
every wind of, 285. 

Crowd, applause of the, 92. 

Cromwell, attachment of his 
party, 90. 
died at a time fortunate, 
288. 

Crop of injuries, reap a, 367. 

Crows, better to fall amongst, 
572. 

Cruelty is the greatest of 
crimes, 289. 

Cucumbers, sunbeams out of, 
291. 

Culture, its origin not in curi- 
osity, 293. 
the foundation of, 294. 

Cultivation has its balances, 
292. 
of the earth, 537. 

Cup and the lip, 'twixt the, 
1732. 

Cured, what cannot be, 455. 

Curiosity about trifles, 295. 

Curtain, let down the, 296. 

Custom, nothing is stronger 
than, 298. 
reconciles to every, 297. 
what is done against, 299. 

Cymbal, a tinkling, 207. 

Cynic never sees a good qual- 
ity, 300. 

Dabbled a little in history, 301. 

Dabbler in matters of science, 
302. 

Daggers, as you have spoke, 
303. 

Daintiness, learnt of the Flem- 
ish, 304. 

Damage, want of care does us 
more, 181. 

Dan to Beersheba, travel from, 
1387. 



Dandyism affects to look 

down on, 305. 
Danger for danger's sake, 306. 
Dante, Boston help reads, 796. 
Darkness, no, but ignorance, 
309. 
the pressure of, 307. 
Avluch may be felt, 308. 
Daubery, she works by such, 

as this, 311. 
Dawn, no solemnity so deep 

as, 313. 
Day in thy courts, 314. 

unto day uttereth speech, 

1279. 
when the longest, 315. 
Dead can boast no advantage, 
318. 
dialogues of the, 354. 
Death, after, the doctor, 391. 
borders upon our birth, 

280. 
is the ugh 7 fact, 319. 
look on it with favor, 316. 
love is strong as, 959. 
men fear, 317. 
puts an end to rivalship, 
318. 
Debasement, a life of gradual, 

320. 
Debate, the Rupert of, 321. 
Debt, national, a national 

blessing, 324. 
Debts are like small shot, 323. 

industry pays, 322. 
Deceit, suspicion that, has 

begotten, 326. 
Decision is based on knowl- 
edge, 328. 
power of uncontrollable, 
327. 
Deed, no noise over a good, 
329. 
the good will for the, 330. 
Defence, millions for, 1930. 
Defenders, cheering her, 312. 
Deformity which the beggars 

mimicked, 331. 
Degree, men of low, 332. 
Delight, any goblet of. 334. 

excessive feelings of, 335. 
Deluge, after me the, 336. 
Democracy, a, in Sparta, 338. 



INDEX TO QUOTATIONS. 



331 



Democracy is the healthful 

life-blood, 337. 
Demosthenes concerning ora- 
tory, 9. 
Dependence on generosity of 

others, 320. 
Derling, an old man's, 310. 
Desert shall rejoice, 340. 
Despair increaseth debts, 322. 

no, so absolute as, 343. 
Despatch is the soul of busi- 
ness, 344. 
Despotism sits nowhere se- 
cure, 345. 
Destinies, according to fates 

and, 347. 
Destiny, wedding is, 346. 

we are the sport of, 348. 
Devil drives, needs must when 
the, 351. 
know him by his horns, 352. 
may be respectable, 792. 
takes a less hateful shape, 

350. 
will not have me damned, 

793. 
would build a chapel, 199. 
Devotional, some persons are 

so, 353. 
Dialogues of the unborn, 354. 
Dice, gambling with, 652. 
Dictionaries are like watches, 

355. 
Difference, distinction with- 
out a, 388. 
wear your rue with a, 356. 
Difficulties, a choice of, 357. 
Difficulty, do well to make no, 

218. 
Dignity of manners is neces- 
sary, 359. 
to be observed, 358. 
Diligence increaseth fruit of 
toil, 362. 
the mother of good fortune, 

360. 
the mother of good luck, 
361. 
Dinner, my wife had got ready 
a, 364. 
of herbs where love is. 363. 
Diplomacy is an art, 365. 

is no shoemaker's stool, 365. 



Disappointment is the salt of 
life, 366. 
when you have sown bene- 
fits, 367. 
Disciplinarian, most decisive, 

in the army, 368. 
Discipline must be maintained, 
369. 
the sum of the Benedictine, 
1210. 
Discontent is want of self-reli- 
ance, 370. 
Discouragement resembles 

pride, 372. 
Discourse and good company 
the sinews of virtue, 375. 
good in, to vary, 373. 
like a rich Persian carpet, 
374. 
Discoveries, great, are made 

by, 376. 
Discretion, best part of valor, 
1982. 
let, be your tutor, 377. 
the better part of valor, 
378. 
Disease of not listening, 1140. 
remedy is worse than the, 
379. 
Diseases crucify the soul, 380. 
Disinterestedness, difficult to 
get men to believe in, 
381. 
is the -divine notion of per- 
fection, 139. 
Dispatch is the soul of busi- 
ness, 1188. 
Disposition never well known, 

384. 
Distance endears friendship, 

387. 
Distinction without a differ- 
ence, 388. 
Ditchers, no ancient gentle- 
men but, 654. 
Divinity in odd numbers, 390. 
Doctor, after death, the, 391. 

takes the fee, 1397. 
Dog, farmer's, bark at a beg- 
gar, 1308. 
is thy servant a. 302. 
living, better than a dead 
lion, 1080. 



332 DICTIONARY OF PROSE QUOTATIONS. 



Dog's, a, obeyed in office, 1308, 
Dogmatist, the most audacious, 

393. 
Dollar, the almighty, 394. 
Dolphin-chamber, sitting in 

my, 569. 
Dome of Agrippa, 395. 
Domicil, let him have no, 396. 
Dominate, no human being 

can, 397. 
Doomsday, never out of date 

until, 398. 
Doubt, when in, win the 

trick, 399. 
Dowry, all nature for his, 400. 
Dragon amongst all the ladies, 

401. 
Drama, manhood of poetry is 

the, 402. 
Dream, I have had a, 404. 

itself is but a shadow, 403. 
Dreg, what too curious, 405. 
Dress a principal part of them- 
selves, 406, 
whose, no one observes, 

407. 
Drinking not to be blamed, 

410. 
poor brains for, 411. 
Driving of Jehu, 412. 
Drudgism, Dandyism looks 

down on, 305. 
Drunkenness identical with 

ruin, 413. 
is voluntary madness, 414. 
Dulness, cause of. in others, 

415. 
Dust thou art, 416. 
Duty, do our, as we under- 
stand it, 1615. 
happiness the flower of, 

764. 
sense of, pursues us, 419. 
the command of heaven, 

420. 
the condition of existence, 

418. 

Earnest, a man in, finds means, 

-122. 
Earth loveth the shower, 478. 
tickle her with a hoe, 423. 
Eat to live, 425. 



Eating, appetite comes with, 

426. 
Ebony, cut in, 428. 
Eccentricity has always 

abounded, 429. 
Echo is the voice of a reflec- 
tion, 431. 
Economy comes too late, 434. 
creative, is the fuel of 
magnificence, 433> 
Edifices, great, the Avork of 

ages, 58. 
Education, a complete and 
generous, 438. 
is an ornament, 436. 
is to an human soul, 435, 
should be broad, 437. 
Egotism in print not so insuf- 
ferable, 440. 
wrong side out, 49. 
Egotists, men are, 441. 

pest of society is, 439. 
Elegance of feinale friend- 
ship, 442. 
Elm sends forth a groan, 1783. 
Eloquence does not consist in 
speech, 445. 
shows the power of man, 

443. 
was to be gagged, 647. 
we cannot get, 444. 
Emancipation is but half com- 
pleted, 616. 
Emergencies, presence of mind 

in, 446. 
Emotion, action the outlet of, 
6. 
is the element of madness, 

448. 
sentiment is intellectual., 
ized, 447. 
Empire, the, is peace, 449. 
Employment and hardships 
prevent melancholy, 450. 
gives health, 452. 
the hand of little, 451. 
End, one must consider the, 

453. 
Enemies, secret historv of our. 

458. 
Enemy is within the gates, 456. 
ruav become vour friend, 
457. 



nSTDEX TO QUUTATIONS. 



333 



Enemy to life, care is an, 184. 
Energy, genius is an affair of, 
667. 
life is a species of, 459. 
England expects every man to 
do his duty, 461. 
not the workshop of the 

world, 460. 
three good men unhanged 
in, 549. 
Englishman, as I am an, 66. 
Enoch's name, book bearing, 

505. 
Enough is as good as a feast, 
' 462. 
is equal to a feast, 558. 
Enterprise, heroic, is gone, 

463. 
Enthusiasm begets enthu- 
siasm, 465. 
is the height of man, 464. 
Envy feels not its own happi- 
ness, 467. 
hatred and malice, 466. 
Epitaph, better have a bad, 
469. 
let no man write my, 468. 
Equal, all men are created, 470. 
Equator, speak disrespectfully 

of the, 386. 
Equity is a roguish thing, 471. 
Equivocation will undo us, 472. 
Error, all men are liable to, 
474. 
is to be pitied, 473. 
Esteem, nothing so proves, as 

imitation, 475. 
Eternity looks grander and 
kinder, 476. 
restores all, 477. 
Eulogv, monuments and, be- 
long to the dead. 1218. 
Events creep or fly, 479. 
the best calendars, 1057. 
we are not to lead, 480. 
Evil, be not overcome by, 709. 
for evil, recompense to no 

man, 483. 
implanted in man by na- 
ture, 481. 
in every human heart, 482. 
Evolution a change to a more 
coherent form, 484. 



Example acquires authority 
when, 486. 
is a school of mankind, 485. 

Exercise is labor, 489. 

Exile is terrible, 490. 

Existence, duty the condition 
of, 418. 

Expediency, party honesty is 
party, 492. 

Experience, unless, be a jewel, 
496. 
keeps a dear school, 493. 
makes us wise, 494. 
set with the sharp mor- 
dant of, 495. 

Experiment, full tide of suc- 
cessful, 497. 

Explanations which survive, 
it is not, 498. 

Expression, beauty without, 
129. 

Externals, does not long after, 
93. 

Eyes bright, with many tears, 
499. 
cobwebs out of my, 236. 

Fable pleases most univer- 
sally, 502. 

Fabric of man, many pieces in 
this, 503. 

Fabrication of a new govern- 
ment, 504. 

Face, God has given you one, 
506. 
he does smile his, 98. 

Facility is worse than bribery, 
507. 

Fact, character is a, 201. 

Faction, a spirit of, 508. 

Factions are carried too high, 
371. 

Factors in the trading world, 
509. 

Facts, a world of, 511. 

are stubborn things, 510. 

Faculty that forms thy judg- 
ments, 512. 

Fagots, there are, 513. 

Fail at all is to fail utterly, 
514. 

Fairness, with, how can I go 
back, 516. 



334 DICTIONARY OF PEOSE QUOTATIONS. 



Faith, he that has lost his, 389. 
hope is the parent of, 825. 
is love, 517. 

is the force of life, 521. 
is the substance of things 

hoped for, 519. 
reason for the. 520. 
that right makes might, 

421. 
that wears well, 495. 
would lift us absolutely, 
518. 
Falsehood imperils by its dis- 
covery, 524. 
is cowardice, 522. 
is for a season. 523. 
those who thrive by, 1S54. 
Fame is the idol to. 525. 

no sure test of merit, 526. 
the temple of, 527. 
those who despise, 528. 
Families amongst the gentrv, 
679. 
there are but two, in the 
world, 530. 
Family, meanness of thy, 38. 
Famine ends famine. 531. 
Fancy. Burke's imperial, 532. 
Fantasy, imagination is mere, 

534. 
Farce, the. is done. 296. 
Farewell, the happv never say, 

535. 
Farm, each man reaps on his 

own. 536. 
Fascination, the gift of, 538. 
Fashion is a potency in art, 
540. 
wears out more apnarel, 
539. 
Fat. fair and forty. 54S. 
Fatalism says that something 

must be, 541. 
Fate, educated to bear his, 543. 
intellect annuls, 936. 
is character, 544. 
is unpenetrated causes. 542. 
Father, wise son maketh a 
glad. 545. 
wise, that knows his own 
child. 546. 
Faults are such that one loves 
him, 551. 



Faults, greatest of, to be con- 
scious of none, 550. 
Favors, a lively sense of future, 
553. 
he only confers, generous- 
ly^^. 
Fawns, frolicsome as the. 63(d. 
Fear in love, no, 557. 

natural, in children. 554. 
springs from ignorance, 
556. 
Feast, enough is as good as a, 
462. 
enough is equal to a, 558. 
master of the. 830. 
of languages. 1533. 
small cheer and great wel- 
come make a. 559. 
Features are so fashioned that, 

560. 
Feeling, age a matter of. 25. 
comes before reflection, 
561. 
Fellow that hath had losses, 

761. 
Fellow-laborers in the same 

vineyard. 797. 
Fellows, best king of good, 

562. 
Fellowship is heaven. 563. 

lack of. is hell, 563. 
Fiction, condemn it as an im- 
probable, 885. 
Fields, babbled of green, 565- 
Finery, sake of. 566. 
Fire, let him have no, 396. 
tangible of all visible mya 
teries. 567. 
Firmament showeth his handi- 
work, 570. 
Flag, to haul down the Amer- 
ican. 30. 
Flanders, armies swore terri- 
bly in. 1489. 
Flatter, easier to. than to 

praise, 575. 
Flatterers eat us alive. 572. 
Flattery corrupts both receiver 
and giver, 573. 
imitation is the sincerest, 
574, 
Flemish daintiness and soft- 
ness, 304. 



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are tike sweetest things, 

of life are bait visionary, 

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Fortitu< : where true, 

a 

Las often been 
blamed, 603. 
makes him a fool, 601. 

\rith inflicting 
one calamity 

Port ■ i n g , wL 

brought to pass under, 
604 
Foundations of knowl- _ 

were laid, 605. 
Foun" use the, I " 

Frailty of a man, 606. 
Fraud, notorious by base, 610. 
Freedom, a new birth of, 614. 
is a new religion, 612. 
is not caprice. 611. 
man's will. I )5. 

to the free, 613. 
I 1 7 7 men with votes in their 

hands, 616. 
Refieftman, a, must be always 

_ 'AT. 
Fretf ulness of temper. 
Friend, a new, is as new wine, 
M 
be slow in choosing a. - 

-.Tee- 
able, 6S ~ 
does not hli one part of the 

- - 22 
forsake not an old, 691 
if he have not a, 620. 
in need, 625. 
is another self, 619. 
might become an enemv, 

">: 

nofit I can do for mv, 

- 

.Tersity of our, 16. 
- lis. 607. 

- ■ -- - 

pla two, first met, 

a 

•.nt that loves 
the - 

- und health. 630. 
.lorn lasting, 633. 

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336 DICTIONARY OF PROSE QUOTATIONS. 



Friendship, only is genuine, 

when, 632. 
Friskiness of one is a cause of, 

635. 
Frolicsome as the young 

fawns, 636. 
Fullness and wantonness , 

smart for our, 638. 
Fun, the most English of quali- 
ties, 639. 
Fussiness, a fair proportion to 

her, 640. 
Futility of an easy reliance, 

641. 
Future is lighted for us, 643. 
Futurity is the great concern 

of mankind, 642. 

Gab, gift of, 645. 

Gabbling, no language, but a, 

646. 
Gagged, eloquence was to be, 

647. 
Gain, to die is, 648. 
Gallantry of private soldiers, 

650. 
G a 1 1 o w s-maker ; for that 

frame, 651. 
Gambling with cards, 652. 
Game, the rigor of the, 2039. 
Gangrene, contempt is a kind 

of, 264. 
Garden, God Almighty first 

planted a, 655. 
Gardeners, no ancient gentle- 
men but, 654. 
Garrick's death eclipsed the 

gayety, 658. 
Gatherer, a, and disposer of 

other men's stuff, 1535. 
Gathering, I '11 make a, for 

him, 657. 
Gayety of nations eclipsed, 668. 
General, make him an ill, 659. 
Generalities, glittering and 

sounding, 660. 
Generation, come down to us 

from a former, 661. 
Generosity cannot remain in- 
active, 665. 
is a duty, 662. 

is the flower of justice, 663. 
is the vanity of giving, 664. 



Genius, impossible for talent 
is the mark of, 666. 
inspires this thirst for 

fame, 671. 
is an affair of energy, 667. 
is feeble which cannot hold 

its own, 669. 
measure, by quality. 670. 
studies the causal thought, 
668. 
Gentility, a constant recog- 
nition of, 672. 
establish their claims to, 
673. 
Gentleman born, master par- 
son, 676. 
is a Christian product. '374. 
learn from his Bible to be 
a more thorough. 675. 
Gentlemen were the hist in 

Europe, 1009. 
Gentleness, possess firmness 
who can possess true, 677. 
Gentlewoman, if this had not 

been a, 678. 
Gentry, if thou meetest one of 
these small, 680. 
or the lower nobility. 679. 
Genuineness, the one' thing 

needful, 681. 
Gesture, language of, is God's 

language, 682. 
Gettings this year have been 

less than niy last, 683. 
Ghosts the first guess of the 
savage, 6S5. 
true love is like, 686. 
Giants in the earth, 687. 
Gibberish, speaks, 688. 
Gibbets, unloaded all the, 682. 
Gift, onlv, is a portion of thv- 

' self, 690. 
Gifts, color is the holiest of, 

238. 
Gilead, no balm in, 122. 
Girl, vou cannot hammer a, 

692, 
Giving is a training for one's 

brain, 693. 
Gladness of heart is the life of 

man, 694. 
Glorv, chief, of every people, 
"103. 



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Glory, lies in noble deeds, 695. 
no path of flowers leads to, 
696. 

nothing so expensive as, 
697. 
Goblet of delight, 334. 
God Almighty cannot prevent 
me from winning, 87. 
Almighty first planted a 

garden, 655. 
alone is exempt from want, 

701. 
alone is great. 700. 
deceiveth thee not, 690. 
gives every bird its food, 

1676. 
gives in over measure. 698. 
helps them that help, 1675. 
if there were no, 703. 
in apprehension how like 

a. 56. 
is a household God. 702. 
may forgive sins, 110. 
security of a. 606. 
will put up with a, 860. 
Godliness, cleanliness is next 

to. 233. 
God's relative personality is 

shadowed forth. 95. 
Gods, whom the, favor, dies 

young, 704. 

Gold, a good heart's worth, 783 

enough, give him, 703. 

not the only coin. 237. 

Goldsmith, whatever he wrote, 

706. 
Good is always the road to 

what is true, 707. 
Good-breeding the result of 

good sense. 710 
Good-fellowship, nor, in thee. 

711. 
Good-fortune, moment of ex- 
cessive. 712. 
Good-nature a fruit of true 

Christianity, 713. 
Goodness does not more cer- 
tainly make men happy, 
716. 
lies in abstaining not mere- 
ly from injustice, 714. 
must have some edge to it, 
715. 



Good-will of the meanest per- 
son, 1752 
Gossip of society would perish, 

717. 
Government, happiness the 
end of all. 723. 
is a contrivance of human 

wisdom, 7 JO. 
not a government of laws, 

is a despotism, 724. 
of the people. 614. 
the essence of a free, con- 
sists in, 719. 
the freedom of a, 722. 
are party governments, 
72i. 
Grace, beauty without. 129. 
seasoned 'with salt. 725. 
Grandeur has a heavy tax, 726. 
Gratitude is a soil. 727. 

is in the flow of spirits, 728. 
Grave, as secret as the, 730. 
cradle stands in the, 280. 
jealousy is cruel as the, 
959. 
Grave-makers, no ancient gen- 
tlemen but, 654. 
Gravity and temperance of the 
Mussulman, 734. 
is the ballast of the soul, 

731. 
out of his bed at midnight, 

732. 
to play at cherry pit. 733. 
Great men are among the best 
gifts. 740. 
men are the summits of 

ranges. 739. 
some are born, 741. 
truly, man. virtuous. 738 
Greatness is a spiritual condi- 
tion, 73~>. 
Nothing is more simple than, 

737. 
Greed which has overstepped 

limits, 743. 
Grief, every one can master a, 
746. 
flood of, decreaseth, 744. 
is the agony of an instant, 

745. 
those who have known, 
1629. 



338 DICTIONARY OF PEOSE QUOTATIONS. 



Grotesque, there is .: false. 747. 
Grow, we shall continue to. 

1974. 
Guardian, men do not need 

any, 749. 
Guest, the tirst dava man is a, 

750. 
Guillotine was to travel in. 951 
Guilt, audacity :ke last refuse 

of, 97. 
distorts faculties oi the 

Immaninind. 751. 
is crooked, intricate. 915. 
is ever at a loss. 752. 
Gypsies, serve your best 

thoughts as. do stolen 

children, 753. 
Habit is a second nature. 75*. 
the approximation of ani- 
mal system, 75E , 
Hades, who hath returned 

from. 757. 
Hair. one. of a woman. 755. 
Hand, Arabia will not sweeten 

this littie. 760. 

>rget her running 961. 
that has none::: in it. 759. 
Handsome, everything about 

Inn:. 761. 
Hanging is destiny, 346. 
is the word, sii . 762. 
was the worst use. 763. 
Happiest, he is. of whom the 

world says least live 
Happiness, bitter to look into, 

is rather a negative than, 

7 66. 
lies in health. 765. 
man the artificer of his 

own. 768. 
the flower of duty. 764. 
Harmonv. w:rietv the condi- 



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He 




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nks nis nnrne speaks. 


He 


Lla 

art's. 


i good, worth gold. 


He 


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should be kept heav- 




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lv. 7S6. 


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will 


- E-rited bv. 755, 

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Hectoring must be looked 

upon, 788. 
Helgrb:_: as well biss a. 127. 
Heels, . >me :.: my, 75 :. 

let your uncle kick his, 789. 
Heirl; :m. ever left such an. 

791. 
Hell is both sides of the tomb, 

792. 
Hell's mouth is full of good 

wishes, -1 
H elm . sleeve in his . 795. 
11 e B ton, reads Dante, 796. 
Herbs linn m of, 363. 
Hermit, autumn comes not 



Haste ruir: waste. 771. 

Hatred is selr-pmnishment. 772. 
Haughrr are alwavs :br vic- 
tims. 774. 
Hav. make, while the sunne 



Head 



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copy, 3ol. 



Hei t man is a, 801. 

Hemes. : ~ - m, exist 

Heroic cannot be the common, 

502. 
Heroism, brave man inspires 
others :. . 164. 
characteristic of genuine, 
502/ 
Hero-worship is healthy, 805. 
s: riety is founded on. 804. 
>I n is another man's 

doxv,"l334. 



INDEX TO QUOTATIONS. 



339 



Historian, to be a really good, 

807. 
Historians ought to be precise, 

806. 
History a picture of crimes, 
811. 
earliest expression of 

thought, 808. 
of world not changed, 80. 
owes its excellence to the 

writer's manner, 810. 
the herald of antiquity, 

809. 
the witness of the times, 
809. 
Hobgoblin, consistency is the, 

261. 
Holidays, life without, is like, 
812. 
revelations which, bring, 
813. 
Home, man who has no, 815. 
the nursery of the Infinite, 
814. 
Homer himself must beg, 120. 
poets steal from, 816. 
sometimes nods, 817. 
Honest man able to speak for 
himself, 819. 
man, character of an, 821. 
Honesty dwells like a miser, 
1373. 
no legacy so rich as, 820. 
Honor hath three things in it, 
822. 
hiding mine, in my neces- 
sity, 417. 
that chastity of, 823. 
Honors mark how high we 

stand, 824. 
Hope is the parent of faith, 
825. 
nothing is more universal 

than, 828. 
spreads wings on unfath- 
omable seas, 826. 
Hopes, he that lives upon, S27. 
Horse, ride not a free, to 
death, 829. 
want of a, the rider was 
lost, 1269. 
House built on another man's 
ground, 833. 



House, man's, is his castle, 

186. 
Houses are built to live in, 831. 
are like human beings, 832. 
Hutting must be looked upon, 

788. 
Human nature capable of 

great things, 836. 
Humanity, beyond the bounds 
of, 99. 
Christianity the highest, 

835. 
do more than is allowed 

to, 488. 
in this ship of, 834. 
is constitutionally lazy, 
1036. 
Humble-pie in life's feast, 

837. 
Humility, love is the parent of, 
838. 
the altar upon which God, 
839. 
Humor consistent with pathos, 
840. 
is the mistress of tears, 842. 
Hypocrisy the homage vice 

pays, 844. 
Hypocrites, cant of, 180. 

Ice, chaste as, 179. 

of chastity is in them, 208. 
Iconoclasm was a primitive 
Rationalism. 847. 
whether manifested in re- 
ligion or, S46. 
Idea, persistence of an all-ab- 
sorbing, 851. 
that fellow seems to pos- 
sess but one, 852. 
Idealism, essence of the Kan- 
tian, 854. 
Ideals are our better selves, 
855. 
are the world's masters, 
856. 
Ideas, greatest number of the 
greatest, 76. 
higher grade of develop- 
ment of, 850. 
in the head set hands, 848. 
must work through brains, 
849. 



340 DICTIONARY OF PROSE QUOTATIONS. 



Ideas, often flash across our 

minds, 853. 
Idleness and pride tax. S53. 
Idols, a man shall east his, 

S59. 
Ignorance breeds rashness, 
866. 
caused by sloth. 863. 
fear springs from. 556. 
gives a range of probabili- 
ties, 862. 
never settles a question. 

861. 
no darkness but. S65. 
of the law excuses no, 864. 
Ill-humor arises from con- 
sciousness of want of 
merit. 867. 
Illumination is writing made 

lovely, 863. 
Illusion about women. 869. 
Image, making man over in 

his. 1557. 
Imagination, a man should 
have, 872. 
is mere fantasy. 534. 
on human, events produce, 

871. 
the secret and marrow of 

civilization, 870. 
to sweeten my. 873. 
Imitation is the sincerest flat- 
tery. 574. 
Immortality, desire for, not 
selfish. 875. 
the discovery of Christi- 
anity. 874. 
work for, then wait, 876. 
Impatient, we get. 877. 
Imperfections divinely ap- 
pointed. 878. 
Imperialism. George Washing- 
ton drove. 880. 
under the pretext of, 879. 
Impertinences, nothing more 
easv than to represent 
as, 881. 
Impossibility, a metaphysical, 

882. 
Imposture weakens confi- 
dence. 883. 
Impression, the first, SS4. 
Improvement is nature, 886. 



Impudence nearly allied to 
fortitude, 888. 

Impulse, men have wandering, 
802. 

Inactivitv. a wise and master- 
ly, 889. 

Inclination gets the better of 
judgment, 891. 

Index, owe the most to a good, 
894. 
so essential to everv book, 

895. 
value of an accurate, 896. 

India, where one must not 
take things too seri- 
ously, 897. 

Indies, augmentation of the, 
98. 

Indifference, nothing that con- 
cerns a man a matter of, 
898. 

Individuality everywhere to 
be respected, 899. 

Indolence, an excuse for, 901. 

Industrial problem is solved, 
1692. 

Industry, end of all, the at- 
tainment of happiness, 
903. 
honorable, travels with en- 
joyment, 904. 
makes all things easy, 902. 
pays debts, 322. 

Inevitable, arguing with the, 
62. 

Infallibility alwavs paralvzes. 
907. 

Infamv is not too deep for, 
908. 

Infection spreadeth upon, 
1835. 

Infidel, he is worse than an, 
910. 

Infidelity, conscience comes in 
to correct our, 909. 

Infinite, home the nurserv of 
the, 814. 

Infinitv of God is not mysteri- 
ous, 911. 

Influence of Athens, 89. 

to be measured by its kind, 
912. 

Ingratitude is monstrous, 914. 



INDEX TO QUOTATIONS. 



341 



Injustice now become a state 

proverb, 915. 
Ink, gall enough in thy, 916. 
Inn, happiness produced by a 

good, 922. 
take mine ease in my, 424. 
Inne, ease in mine, 921. 
Innkeeper, though I am an, 

917. 
Innocence is plain, direct, and, 

918. 
the greatest prerogative of, 

919. 
Innovations the births of 

time, 920. 
Insanity, fancy over reason is, 

923. 
Insight, moment's,worth a, 924. 
Insincerity must make whole 

life dramatic, 925. 
Inspiration, answering, 926. 
Instinct, a coward on, 928. 

is intelligence incapable, 

929. 
Instincts, our Hellenizing, 794. 
Institution is the lengthened 

shadow of, 930. 
Institutions, we are bullied by, 

931. 
Insult, irony is an, 948. 
Insults, the way to procure,933. 
Integrity without knowledge 

is weak, 934. 
Intellect annuls fate, 936. 

character is higher than, 

203. 
exists in its products, 935. 
Intelligence, every breeze 

wafts, 938. 
to educate, is to enlarge, 

937. 
Intent, their, everywhere, 262. 
Interest speaks all sorts of 

tongues, 382. 
Intimate, worst way of being, 

940. 
Invention, the first in an, 942. 
without, a painter is, 943. 
Inventor, every man should be 

an, 944. 
knows how to borrow, 944. 
Iron, strike when the, is hot, 

946. 



Iron, rule with a rod of, 947. 
Irony is an insult, 948. 
Irreverence, we treat God 

with, 949. 
Itch of disputing, the, 385. 
Iteration likely to generate 

heat, 950. 
Ivory, as if done in, 428. 

Jabbered in several languages, 

952. 
Jackanapes, sit like a, 953. 
Jacobins, tribunals coimposed 

of, 954. 
Jangle, finished our daily, 956. 
Jar, a manifest show of, 957. 
Jealousy, born with love, does 

not die with it, 958. 
Jealousy is cruel as the grave, 

959. 
magnifier of trifles, 960. 
Jeff erson Avas a dabbler in sci- 
ence, 302. 
Jehu, the son of Ninishi, the 

driving of, 412. 
Jelly, capacity of, 83. 
Jerusalem, if I forget thee, 

961. 
Jeshurun waxed fat, 547. 
Jest, a good, forever, 964. 

loses its point, 963. 
Jests that give pain are no 

jests, 962. 
Jewel, consistency, thou art a, 

969. 
unless experience be a, 496. 
Jewels, nature did never put 

her precious, 656. 
Jew, hath not a, eyes, 970. 
Jews, Bible is the chronicle of 

the, 141. 
Joke, get a, well into a Scotch, 

972. 
Journey, good company in a, 

973. 
Journeymen, Nature's, had 

made men, 1200. 
Joy, helpers of their, 797. 

in one's work is, 974. 
Judge should lean on the side 

of compassion, 977. 
Judges must beware of hard 

constructions, 976. 



342 DICTIONARY OF PROSE QUOTATIONS. 



Judges teaeheth his, to sell 

justice, 975. 
Judgment falls upon a man 
for, 979. 

hath hred a remorse, 1567. 

is forced upon us by ex- 
perience, 978. 
Justice cannot sleep forever, 
1722. 

generosity the floTrer of, 
663. 

is often pale, 728. 

is immortal, 983. 

is violent to the party of- 
fending, 981. 

no virtue so great as, 989. 

rails upon yond thief, 984. 

satisfies everybody, 982. 

uncompromising as, 770. 

Kindness blunts the sting of 
unkindness, 9S5. 
the law of, in her tongue, 
986. 
King, as tedious as a, 989. 
Kings tyrants from policy, 987. 
Kiss, not so loud as cannon, 

990. 
Kissing with inside lip, 991. 
Knave, a slippery and subtle, 
993. 
he would be a double, 818. 
the best defence against a, 
992. 
Knavery the best defence, 992. 
Knife to thy throat, put a, 53. 
Know what we are, 644. 
Knowledge, feeling's a sort of, 
995. 
foundations of, were laid, 

605. 
he that increaseth, 998. 
is power, 994. 
of myself, profit in, 1681. 
our only real, 996. 
with, but without energy, 

999. 
without integrity is dan- 
gerous, 997. 

Labor for labor's sake, 1005. 
habit of, essential to 
health, 1004. 



Labor has its summit in 
heaven, 1001. 
immigration of, 1006. 
not repugnant to man, 

1003. 
when, quarrels with capi- 
tal, 1002. 
Laborers, number of useful, 

1007. 
Labors, children sweeten, 214. 
Lacqueys with insolence and 

plenty, 1008. 
Ladies, the' first modern, 1009. 
Lair, rouse the lion from his, 

1010. 
Lambs in the spring show us, 

635. 
Lamp, arguments smelt of the, 

1011. 
Land, the problem of, 1012. 
Landmark, the ancient, 1013. 
Landscape, the true ideal of, 

1014. 
Language, an attack upon, 78. 
the blood of the soul, 1016. 
the great aim of, 1015. 
the immediate gift of God, 

1017. 
the secret of, 1831. 
Laugh, man who cannot, fit 
for treasons, 1018. 
that win, 1021. 
woman without a, 1022. 
Laughter for a month, 964. 
naught more ill-timed 

than, 1019. 
of a fool, 1020. 
of man, contentment of 
God, 1023. 
Law, crowner's-quest, 1030. 
ends, tyranny begins, 1027. 
higher, than the Constitu- 
tion, 1029. 
is absolute justice, 1025. 
is not, if it violates, 1024. 
no, can meet the conven- 
ience, 1028. 
Laws are but copies of the 
eternal, 1026. 
of behavior yield, 137. 
Lawyer, breath of an unfee'd. 
1033. 
rescues your estate, 1031. 



INDEX TO QUOTATIONS. 



343 



Lawyer, skull of a, 1034. 
Lawyers, let's kill all the, 

1032. 
Laziness travels so slowly, 

1035. 
Learning hath infancy, youth, 
strength of years, old 
age, 1037. 
was never decried by, 1038. 
Legacies, books are, 152. 
Legacy, no, so rich as honesty, 

820. 
Leisure, God forbid that it 
should befall, 1040. 
time for, something use- 
ful, 1039. 
Letter, a, is a conversation, 

1041. 
Liar, I do despise a, 1125. 

pain makes the innocent 
man a, 1338. 
Liars, the most mischievous, 

1121. 
Libels, some make light of, 

1012. 
Liberty a plant of rapid 
growth, 1050. 
eternal vigilance the price 

of, 1052. 
give me, or give me death, 

1048. 
God grants, to those who 

love it, 1051. 
how many crimes are com- 
mitted, 1049. 
is never cheap, 1046. 
pardon something to the 

spirit of, 1044. 
rendered more precious 

by, 1045. 
sun of, is set, 1047. 
Library, a well-chosen, 1055. 
access for himself and fam- 
ily to some social, 1054. 
Lie, men of high degree are a, 
332. 
that many men will not 
believe, 11 26. 
Lies are like the father that 

begets them , 1 L23. 
Life a campaign, not a battle, 
1060. 
a little gleam of time, 1058. 



Life, an age to the miserable, 
1056. 
another name for action, 

1059. 
care is an enemy to, 184. 
how happy the' unembar- 
rassed, 183. 
is a shuttle, 1061. 
is a species of energy, 459. 
is not so short, 276. 
love, better than tigs, 1062 
noble, crowned with heroic 

death, 803. 
not dated by years, 1057. 
without holidays is like 
a long journey, S12. 
Light, a burning and a shining, 
1065. 
God's eldest daughter, 1064. 
is the first of paint e is, 
1063. 
Lightness the distinctive line 

between, 1066. 
Like begets like, 1705. 
Lilies of the held, consider 

the, 106S. 
Limb, bit of the under, 1069. 
Limbo, gate of Dante's, 1070. 
Limitation, physiological and 

cerebral, 1071. 
Line, fight it out on this, 1074. 
who hath stretched the, 
1075. 
Lineaments of the body, 1076. 
Linen, let Thisby have clean, 
1077. 
smells of lavender, 1078. 
Lion among Ladies, 1081. 

living dog better than a 

dead, 1060. 
rouse the, from his lair, 
1010. 
Lip. cup and the, 1732. 

kissing with inside, 991. 
Lispers, took an aversion to 

letters, 1082. 
Listener, a good, 1063. 
Listening, please more by, 1084. 
Literature, a sort of rule in, 
1411. 

forms the line of demarca- 
tion. 10S7. 
should be ragged, 1088. 






344 DICTIONARY OF PROSE QUOTATIONS. 



Literature, style is the immor- 
tal thing in, 1800. 

the thought of thinking 
souls, 1085. 

we cultivate, on oatmeal, 
1089. 

whenever it consoles sor- 
row, 89. 

writes the character of, 
1086. 
London a habitation of bit- 
terns, 101. 

the epitome of our times, 
1090. 

the Rome of to-day, 1090. 
Loneliness, the best, is, 1092. 
Lord hath taken away, 1093. 
Lose what he never had, 1094. 
Lot is cast, estate in which 

thy, 1095. 
Love, a universal leveller, 1099. 

an oyster may be crossed 
in, 1336. 

are you so much in, 1105. 

foolishly, better to, than 
not at all, 1107. 

inwrought in our enthusi- 
asm, 1100. 

is strong as death, 959. 

is swift, sincere, pious, 
1102. 

man in, with one woman, 
111. 

man who does not, 1103. 

much, little boldness, 1097. 

the highest symbol of 
friendship, 1101. 

the life of the soul, 1098. 

the medicine of moral evil, 
1096. 

thy neighbor as thyself, 
1271. 

which a Christian bears to 
his Redeemer, 968. 

will make men dare to die, 
1104. 

wisely, best to, 1107. 
Loved, no sooner looked but 

they, 1106. 
Lover, all mankind love a 
1108. 

resolve the propositions 
of a, 1110. 



Lover's character, beautiful 

trait in, 1109. 
Luck, good, the handmaid of 
character, 1113. 
lies in odd numbers, 1114. 
may make madness wis- 
dom, 1112. 
Luxury a word of uncertain 
signification, 1119. 
yesterday is comfort to- 
day, 1118. 
Lying, as easy as, 1124. 

how the world is given to, 

1122. 
nothing more criminal 
than, 1120. 

Maceration of the body, 1127. 

Machinations, hollo wness, 
treachery, 1128. 

Machine, human body is a, 
1129. 
while this, is to him, Ham- 
let, 1131. 

Machinery a term invented by 
the critics, 1130. 

Madness, though this be, 1132. 
very midsummer, 1133. 

Magician, profound in this art, 
1134. 

Magistracy, political execu- 
tive, a great trust, 1135. 

Magistrate, let the, be labor- 
ing men, 1136. 

Magnificence cannot be cheap, 
1137. 

Majority, one on God ; s side is 
a, 1139. 
should deprive a minority, 
1138. 

Maker, accounts with my, 119. 

Malady of not marking, 1140. 

Malcontents, the Mars, of 1141. 

Malice forced with wit, 1145. 
knowledge is darkened in 

your, 1144. 
no, nor ill-will, 1143. 
with, toward none, 205. 

Mammonism, all except, a vain 
grimace, 1146. 

Man, adversity hard upon a, 14. 
attestation of a reasonable, 
92. 



INDEX TO QUOTATIONS. 



345 



Man, bad, worse when he pre- 
tends to be a saint, S43. 

does not mean this or that, 
1147. 

frailty of a, GOG. 

having nothing to say, 
1842. 

honest, able to speak for 
himself, 819. 

is free who is protected 
from injury, 615. 

is the will, 834. 

lazy, is a bad man, 857. 

let him pass for a, 1150. 

needs a, to perceive a, 1378. 

not made for nature, 1149. 

passes away, 325. 

rich, is an honest man, 818. 

should keep to his own 
caste, 185. 

superior, faults of the, 1818. 

the forces of many in one, 
1148. 

who fights against his 
country, 1916. 

who has ancestors, 37. 

who loves his country, 1362. 

with knowledge, but with- 
out energy, 999. 

worth knowing well, 5. 

Manhood, Christianity is the 

ideal form of, 219. 

makes much against my, 
1152. 

power the measure of, 1151. 
Mankind, common sense of, 
1154. 

deserve better of, 1438. 

the history of, 1153. 
Manner, the most insinuating, 

127. 
Maimers must adorn knowl- 
edge, 1155. 

nothing settled in, 137. 

the element of good, 1156. 
Man's heart deviseth his way, 
782. 

house is his castle, 186. 

will, seat of freedom, 105. 
Maples, what are those, 1927. 
March, the ides of, 1157. 
Marriage a permanent co-part- 
nership, 1159. 



Marriage, after a reaction, 
1161. 
the dictate of nature, 1160. 
the means of happiness, 
1160. 
Marry ancient people, 491. 
Martyrs, blood of the, 148. 
Mason, who builds stronger 

than the, 651. 
Matrimony has made you 
eloquent, 1164. 
sea for which no compass, 
1165. 
Mathematician, predicts the 

planet, 593. 
Matter, how great a, 1166. 
Maxims are to the intellect 

what laws, 1167. 
Meanness, characteristic of, is 

cruelty, 1168. 
Measures have always been 

my mark, 1169. 
Meat too good for any but 

anglers, 1170. 
Medicines to make me love 

him, 1171. 
Meditation, the art of, 1172. 
Meek, blessed are the, 1173. 
Melancholy, companions of 
most, 1174. 
compounded o f m a n y 

simples, 1630. 
suck, out of a song, 1175. 
Melodrama mimics the tragic, 

1176. 
Memory, grant, to us, 1181. 
the art of attention, 1179. 
will not be ruled, 1178. 
Men, great, are still admirable, 
11. 
hate those to whom they 

have to lie, 773. 
in teaching others, learn, 

932. 
Nature's journeymen had 

made, 10. 
of talents seldom escape 
attacks, 284. 
Merciful, blessed are the, 1182. 
Mercy, no show of, 99. 

nobility's true badge, 11S3. 
they shall obtain, 1182. 
Merit, the assumption of, 11S4. 



346 DICTIONARY OF PROSE QUOTATIONS. 



Merriment, your flashes of, 

1185. 
Merry, a fool to make me, 

1186. 
Metaphor, never get nearer to 

truth than in a, 11S7. 
Method, a, for everything, 
1188. 
without, the largest for- 
tune will, 432. 
Milk, such as have need of, 

1189. 
Millstone, heart is like a, 781. 
were hanged about his 
neck, 1190. 
Mind, affectation necessary to, 
20. 
awful in ruins, 1192. 
can dwell a hermit, 1193. 
conversation is the music 

of the, 266. 
does the work of the Avorld, 

1191. 
is the lever of all things, 

1894, 
nothing is old but the, 47. 
power to broaden the, 3. 
Miracle constantly repeated 

becomes a. 1194. 
Miracles constitute a language 

of heaven. 1195. 
Mirror, hold the, up to nature, 

1259. 
Mirth from the crown of his 
head to, 1197. 
like a flash of lightning, 
1196. 
Miser is as much without,what 
he has, 1199. 
punishment of a, 1198. 
Miserv acquaints with strange 

bed-fellows, 1200. 
Misfortune, in. to smile is to 

offend, 1201. 
Misfortunes, greatest, come 
from ourselves, 1203. 
have their redeeming pow- 
er, 1202. 
one should so bear oneself 
in, 1204. 
Mob have no judgment, 1205. 
nation which has made a. 
1206. 



Moderation is the silken string, 
1207. 
! Modesty with nobler virtues, 
1208. 
Monarchv, the trappings of a, 

1209. 
Monev becomes character, 
1211. 
can beget money, 1213. 
love of, root of all evil, 

1214. 
Paul, can do anything, 

1212. 
put, in thy purse, 1215. 
Monotony, the, of sunshine, 

1216. 
Monument becomes a ruin, 
325. 
shall live no longer in, 1217. 
Monuments ami eulogy belong 

to the dead, 1218. 
Moods, nature has no, 1219. 
Moon beholds the setting sun, 
1816. 
glancing through bars of 

cloud, 684. 
is sculpture, 1220. 
Moral suasion, I believe in, 

1224. 
Morality good as far as it goes, 
1221. 
is of the most primitive 

kind, 1222. 
there is only one, 1223. 
Morning, if I take the wings 

of, 1225. 
Mother, a, in the house, mat- 
ters speed well, 1227. 
you are not responsible to 
set the whole world right, 
1226. 
Moth-kings lay up treasures, 

988. 
Motion, marvellousness of this 

phenomenon, 1229. 
Motive, action, the result of a 
great, 1231. 
want of, makes life dreary, 
1230. 
Mountains, Delectable, 1232. 
never shake hands, 1233. 
Mountebanks for the politic 
body, 1234. 



IXDEX TO QUOTATIONS. 



347 



Mourning, better to go to the 

house of, 1235. 
Mouth, voice without a, 430. 
Murder, every unounished, 
1238. 
seems to run in families, 

1237. 
will out, 123G. 
Muse, to, is to sit in the sun, 

and not think, 1243. 
Music, discourse most elo- 
quent, 1241. 
is the poor man's Par- 
nassus, 1239. 
of the mind, conversation 

is the. 266. 
without the idea is simplv, 
1240. 
Musical temperament, nothing 
more irritating to the, 1242. 
Mystery of mysteries is, 1244. 

Nail, for want of a, the shoe 
was lost, 1269. 

on the head, hit the, 1245. 
Name, he calleth vou by your 
Christian, 529. 

what the dickens his, is, 
1249. 
Names, homeliness of Bun- 
yan's, 1247. 

mania of giving, 1246. 

Milton's fondness of son- 
orous, 1248. 
Nation, if everv, will emplov, 
1487. 

institutions alone can cre- 
ate a, 1251. 

no, can be unjust with 
impunity, 1252. 

which has made a mob of 
itself, 1206. 
Nations, road all, have trod, 

1250. 
Nature, amajestv and mvstery 

• in, 1253. 

a part of our, 754. 

amen of, is a flower, 581. 

and truth are one, 1256. 

created to inspire feeling, 
1257. 

did never put her precious 
jewels, 656. 



Nature has no moods, 1219. 
hold the mirror up to, 1259. 
human, constitution of, 

1723. 
is no spendthrift, 1255. 
made for man, 1149. 
repairs her ravages, 1254. 
talk of subduing, is non- 
sense, 1261. 
Nature's above art, 1258. 

journeymen had made 
men, 10. 
Navigators, winds are on the 

side of the ablest, 1262. 
Necessaries, thou shalt sell 

thy, 887. 
Necessity has no law, 1265. 
make a virtue of, 1263. 
the argument of tyrants, 

1266. 
the creed of slaves, 1266. 
the mother of courage, 

1267. 
urges desperate measures, 

1264. 
villains by, 1268. 
Needs must/ when the Devil 

drives, 351. 
Neglect mav breed great mis- 
chief, 1269. 
Neighbor, modern society ac- 
knowledges no, 127<). 
News abroad, there's villan- 
ous, 1273. 
his horn full of, 1272. 
Newspapers always excite 
curiosity, 127o. 
are the schoolmasters. 1274. 
thev are the most villan- 
ous, 1276. 
Nickname is the hardest stone, 

1277. 
Nicknames and whippings, 

1278. 
Night unto night showeth 

knowledge, 1279. 
Nimshi, Jehu, the son of, 412. 
Nose was as sharp as a pen, 

56-5. 
Noses, hold, to the grindstone, 

1281. 
Nothing against which human 
ingenuity, 1 



348 DICTIONARY OF PROSE QUOTATIONS. 



Nothing proceeds from noth- 
ingness, 1282. 

Nothingness, nothing proceeds 
from, 1282. 

Notorious, he who has become, 
1283. 

November, the later twilight, 
1304. 

Number importeth not much 
in armies, 1286. 

Numbers, divinity in odd, 390. 

Oak, the, roars, 1783. 

Oath, character as security, 

rather than, 1287. 
gives manhood more appro- 

bation, 1288. 
heaven's chancery with 

the, 1289. 
Obduracy and persistency, 1290. 
Obedience, child's first lesson, 

1292. 
flower of, is intelligence, 

1291. 
life of, highest type of per- 
fection, 1293. 
Objects attained by associa- 
tion, 85. 
Obligation, notion of virtue 

imnlies the notion of, 

1294. 
Obligations, in no way alters, 

88. 
Obliquity of understanding, an 

honest, 1295. 
Oblivion, the page whereon 

memory, 1177. 
Observation, by my penny of, 

1297. 
Occasion hath her hair on her 

forehead, 1298. 
Occasions and causes why, 189. 
Occupation, a mind without, 

1299. 
Ocean lay like a waving mir- 
ror, 1301. 
the barrier of my country, 

1303. 
October is its sunset sky, 1304. 
the month for painted 

leaves, 1304. 
O'Dowd, Peggy, is indeed the 

same, 401. 



Offence, guilt of, varies in- 
versely, 1306. 
Office, a dog's obeyed in, 1308. 
Offices, whenever man has cast 

a longing eye on, 1307. 
Oil that is in me, 793. 
Old age the repose of life, 1311. 
• never say you are too, 1309. 
thou shouldst not have 
been, 1313. 
Opinion, a plague of, 1319. 
difference of, 1315. 
is truth filtered, 1318. 
is uniformity of, desirable, 

1316. 
too good, that man has, 
1672. 
Opinions, man's, of more value 
than arguments, 1314. 
popular, seldom or never 
the whole truth, 1317. 
Opportunity, our great social 
and political advantage, 
1320. 
to the man who can't use 
it, 1321. 
Oppression another name for 
irresponsible power, 1323. 
Oracle, each man is an, 801. 
Oration, some verbose, 1768. 
Orator, capital of the, 1326. 
no true, who is not a hero, 
1324. 
Oratory, action the first part 

of, 9. 
Oratory, the effect of, 1325. 
Ordeal, the, is a superstition, 

1327. 
Order, the modest limits of, 
1329. 
the preservation of, 1328. 
Organism, the essential thing 

in any, 1330. 
Organization, how many forms 

of, 1331. 
Originality, the one thing 
which unoriginal minds 
cannot, feel the use, 1332. 
wrapped in the solitude of 
his own, 1333. 
Orthodoxy is my doxy, 1334. 
Outcasts who landed at Plym- 
outh, 1335. 



INDEX TO QUOTATIONS. 



349 



Overcame, I came, saw, and, 

2002. 
Owl, the cynic is the human, 

300. 
Oyster, a bold man that first 

eat, 1337. 
may be crossed in love, 

1336. 

Pain has its own noble joy, 
1340. 
makes the innocent man a 

liar, 1338. 
nor, which death does not 
terminate, 594. 
Painting is silent poetry, 1342. 

the art of, 1341. 
Paintings, I have heard of 

your, 845. 
Pansies, that's for thoughts, 

1566. 
Paper bullets of the brain, 841. 
Parent, no love like that of 

the, 1344. 
Parenthesis, what a, contains, 

1343. 
Parents have most reverence 

who most deserve, 1345. 
Paris, when they die good 

Americans go to, 1346. 
Parnassus, music is the poor 

man's, 1239. 
Parts, attraction of my good, 

94. 
Party, go to heaven but with 
a, 1348. 
he serves his, best, 1347. 
is the madness of many, 
1349. 
Passion, avarice is a universal, 
108. 
the avalanche of the hu- 
man heart, 1350. 
to tatters, tear a, 1351. 
Past at least is secure, 1353. 
never plan the future by 

the, 1352. 
present time springs from 
the, 1565. 
Pathos, humor consistent 

with, 840. 
Patience, he that can have, 
1357. 



Patience, how far will you 
abuse, 1356. 
no man knows the lists of 

his, 1354. 
one great secret of, 1358. 
poor are they that have 

not, 1359. 
will achieve more than 
force, 1355. 
Patriot gladly dies for his 

country, 1360. 
Patriotism, man is little to be 
envied whose, 1364. 
old public opinion of, 1365- 
the last refuge of a scoun- 
drel, 1363. 
the vital condition of 
national permanence, 
1361. 
Peace and friendship our 
wisest policy, 1434. 
at any price, 1367. 
effectual means of pre- 
serving, 1371. 
I love, and am anxious, 

1370. 
let us have, 1369. 
name of the chamber was, 

1368. 
who knocks at the door of, 
34. 
Peacemaker, your if is the 

only, 1372. 
Pearl in your foul oyster, 1373. 
Peasants, descent from, not 

disgraceful, 38. 
Pease, like as one, to, 1067. 
Pen is the tongue of the mind, 

1374. 
Penitence is only madness 

turned, 1375. 
People, chief glory of every, 
103. 
last, I should choose, 39. 
silent, 1701. 
they that marry ancient, 

491. 
think themselves luperior 

to heaven, 1409. 
trained by attrition, 96. 
who deny others, 1680. 
who dictate their own 
measures, 1376, 



350 DICTIONARY OF PROSE QUOTATIONS. 



People whose annals are 

blank, 45. 
Perfection, a point of, in art, 

1379. 
Perfumes of Arabia will not 

sweeten, 760. 
Persecution, in various shapes, 
13S2. 
of innocent people, 1381. 
the history of, 1380. 
Perseverance, great works 

performed by, 13S3. 
Persistence of force, the, 591. 
Personality, God's 95. 

greatest and most vital 
power is, 1385. 
Pessimist obtrudes himself on 

the public, 1386. 
Pest of society is egotists, 439. 
Philanthropists, two classes of, 

1388. 
Philosopher, a true, beyond the 
reach of fortune! 1390. 
be a, but be a man, 13S9. 
Philosophy, before, can teach 
by experience, 1391. 
comprises the understand- 
ing of duty, 1392, 
goes no further than prob- 
abilities, 1393. 
hast any, in thee, 1394. 
Phrase, a fico for the, 1396. 
Phraseology, evil effects from 

an eccentric, 1395. 
Physician exercises his art 
with caution, 1399. 
the flower of our civiliza- 
tion, 1398. 
Pi, babe of mv brain served in, 

1400. 
Pianist, a trained. 91. 
Picture, no. can be good, 1402. 

the beauty of the, 1401. 
Piety best displayed in pur- 
suits, 1403. 
is not a religion, 1404. 
Pilgrim, Autumn comes not 
like a, 106. 
thev laid in a large upper 
chamber, 1368. 
Pilgrimage may be reasonable 

or superstitious, 1405. 
Pines, what are these, 1927. 



Pitch, he that toucheth, shall 

be defiled, 1406. 
Pitcher strike the stone, or 

the stone, 1407. 
Pitv, one draught of human, 
798. 
the, of it, Iago, 1408. 
Place, man who sits in the 

lowest, 830. 
Places do not ennoble men, 

1410. 
Plagiarists, honest, 1412. 
Plague, lest it should be the, 

342. 
Plants, structure of, 86. 
Plastic work, beauty of. 1657. 
Play has as legitimate a place 

as prayers, 1413. 
Plavers that I have seen play, 

10. 
Pleasure, age of, compensa- 
tion for a moment of 
pain, 1339. 
do not bite at the bait of, 

1417. 
lies in tranquillity, 1414. 
mav perfect us as truly, 
1415. 
Pleasures, every age has its, 24. 
rlv, and thev will follow, 

'1416. 
multiplied or oontinued, 

1418. 
what, are harmless, 1419. 
Pledge is the daughter of in- 
jury. 1421. 
to each other our lives, 
our fortunes, 1117. 
Plot, who cannot be crushed 

by a. 1422. 
Poem, a. the image of life, 

1428. 
Poet. a. soaring, 1431. 

man's sincerity and vision 

make him a. 1429. 
must be judged by his poe- 
tic qualities, 1430. 
who does not revere his 
art, 1432. 
Poetrv, angling is somewhat 
like, 44. 
arranges the symbols of 
thought. 1424. " 



INDEX TO QUOTATIONS. 



351 



Poetry, eldest sister of arts, 
1425. 
is painting, 13-12. 
lyrical, 1427. 
manhood of, is the drama, 

402. 
only that is, which cleanses, 

1426. 
the most beautiful mode 
of saying things, 1423. 
Poets steal from Homer, 816. 
Poison itself is a remedy, 

1433. 
Politeness, benevolence in 
small things, 1435. 
the art of choosing, 1436. 
Political economy deals with 

only one side, 1439. 
Politician, conduct of a wise, 

1437. 
Politics, a deleterious profes- 
sion, 1441. 
happy by, 1440. 
holds up the torches of, 

1442. 
the science of exigencies, 
1443. 
Popularity, I don't care a rig 
for, 1446. 
true, takes deep root, 1445. 
Portrait, to sit for one's, 1447. 
Possession eleyen points in 
the law, 1448. 
sees many sides, 79. 
Possessions, care taken to 

limit, 1072. 
Possibilities, seven hundred 

pounds and, 691. 
Posterity, that high court of 
appeal, 1453. 
think of your, 40. 
you will never know how 
much it cost, 1452. 
Poverty deprives a man of 
spirit, 1454. 
is a bully, 1456. 
is the mother of crimes, 283. 
standard of, rises, 1455. 
Power, from the summit of, 
1458. 
is always insolent and des- 
potic, 1459. 
knowledge is, 994. 



Power of uttering God to men, 
966. 
sometimes ought to be re- 

1 used, 1457. 
the measure of manhood, 

1151. 
to broaden the mind, •';. 
Praise from another is better, 
1463 
he would not provoke it, 

1464. 
man who does not love, 

1462. 
moderate, and not vulgar, 

1460. 
some deserve, 1465. 
the reflection of virtue, 
1461. 
Prayed heartily, no man ever, 

1466. 
Prayer a goodly Christian's 

weapon, 1467. 
Prayers, lest the devil cross 

my, 1468. 
Preaching, the chief end of, 

1469. 
Precedent, a, embalms a prin- 
ciple, 1470. 
for what oppression may 
not a, 1471. 
Precept upon precept, 1472. 
Predecessor, memory of thy, 

1473. 
Prejudice is the child of igno- 
rance, 1475. 
Prejudices, people have, 1474. 
Press, freedom of the, 1476. 
Pride and conceit the original 
sin, 1708. 
as loud a beggar as want, 

1478. 
goeth before destruction, 

349. 
is a fault that, 1477. 
is his own glass, 1479. 
Princes like heavenly bodies, 

1624. 
Principle, safest, through life, 
1677. 
the living rock of, 14S0. 
Printer, a, of news, 1482. 

raised to the pillory, 1481. 
Printing, thou hast caused, 1483. 



352 DICTIONARY OF PROSE QUOTATIONS. 



Privilege, what men prize 
most, 1484. 

Probabilities, discredit even, 
1485. 

Problem, industrial, is solved, 
1692. 

Profanely, not to speak it, 
1488. 

Progress has been from scaf- 
fold to scaffold, 1491. 

Promise, never, more than you 
can perform, 1494. 
not to perform, is folly, 
1492. 

Promise-keeping, precise in, 
1495. 

Promises, hold one's country 
to, 1493. 

Property, force man's from 
him, 1877. 
right to, founded in, 
1497. 

Prose is a walk of business, 
1498. 

Proselytizer, when the, begins 
his operations, 1499. 

Prosperity the blessing of the 
Old Testament, 1500. 
with a little more taste, 
1501. 

Protestant religion, 1502. 

Protestations with men are 
like tears, 1503. 

Proverb not amiss when aptly 
applied, 1504. 

Proverbs, sanctuary of the in- 
tuitions, 1505. 

Providence does not favor in- 
dividuals, 1507. 
furnishes the limpest per- 
sonality, 1073. 
on the side of, 1506. 
sufficient to demonstrate 
a, 339. 

Prudence, in, some master vir- 
tue, 1508. 
must be paid for, 1510. 
the virtue of the senses, 
1509. 

Prudent, chance favors the, 
195. 

Public opinion, nothing more 
unjust than, 1511. 



Pulpit, idea of a, is, 1512. 

Punctuality the politeness of 
kings, 1513. 

Punishment which crushes a 
cause is, 1514. 

Puns are the wit of words, 
1515. 

Puritan not a man of specula- 
tion, 1517. 

Puritanism meant something 
when, 1516. 

Puritans gave the world ac- 
tion, 8. 
hated bear-baiting, 1420. 

Purity of mind and conduct, 
1519. 

Purpose, action done to a 
great, 1520. 

Purse, put money in thy, 1215. 

Pursuit, one must espouse 
some, 2014. 

Pyramids, names of their 
founders, 1521. 

Pythias, scoffing at Demos- 
thenes, 1011. 

Qualitv, things that have a, 

1522. 
Quarrel with a man for crack- 
ing nuts, 1525. 
Quarrels, head is full of, 777. 

in which even Satan, 1523. 
Quarter, what comes from this, 

649. 
Question, one side of every, 79. 
sudden, bold, 1526. 
two sides, to every, 1527. 
Quiddities, where be his, 1034. 
Quips and sentences and, 841. 
Quotation, every book a, 1531. 
requires more delicacy, 
Quote, wise reader, to wisely, 

1528. 
Quoter, first, of a good sen- 
tence, 1534. 
Quotes, a great man, bravely, 
1530. 

Rage, die here in a, 1536. 
Rags are the beggar's robe, 

1537. 
Rain, whose soft architectural 

hand, 1538. 



IXDEX TO QUOTATIONS. 



353 



Ramparts of our cities, 1540. 
Rank is a great beautiner, 1539. 
Read, in science, the newest 
works, 1542. 
what books, men of rare 

intellect, 1543. 
with profit, read with plea- 
sure, 1545. 
Reading is to the mind what 
exercise, 1548. 
limited to the few great 

books, 1544. 
maketh a full man, 253. 
of many books, the, 1541. 
Reason, beauty is based on, 
128. 
given by God to attain 

knowledge, 1554. 
if you will not hear, 1549. 
is man's highest gift, 1550. 
man surrendering, has no 

guard, 1551. 
to be hoodwinked, 647. 
Reasoning, the philosophy of, 

1552. ' 
Reasons are as two grains of 
wheat, 194. 
as plenty as blackberries, 
1553. 
Reflection, feeling comes be- 
fore, 561. 
leisure for, 1555. 
Regret, never uttered a vain, 

1558. 
Relations, poor, great men 

have their, 1444. 
Reliance, futility of an easy, 

641. 
Religion cannot be forced, 
1563. 
contracts the circle of our 

pleasures, 1560. 
freedom is a new, 612. 
freedom of, 1562. 
the basis of civil societv, 

1561. 
the practice of righteous- 
ness, 1559. 
Remedy, a, for every wrong, 
246. 
in morals, worse than the 

disease, 1564. 
worse than the disease, 379. 



Remembrance, no. which time 

does not, 594. 
Remorse, judgment hath bred 

a, 15G7. 
Renunciation remains sorrow, 

1568. 
Repent, I '11, and that sud- 
denly, 1570. 
Repentance is a recanting of 

the will, 1569. 
Republican government, the- 
ory of, 1571. 
only government not at 
war, 1572. 
Reputation an idle imposition, 
1576. 
if you esteem your, 1577. 
live on the reputation of 

the, 1574. 
of the master, 1573. 
shall last some people 
twice the time, 1575. 
Resentment gratifies him, 1578. 
Resignation, thought leads to, 

1579. 
Resolve will betray itself, 500. 
Respect, best preserved, 1580. 

worthy of, 1581. 
Respectable implies, observ- 
ances, 1582! 
Responsibilities, ignorance will 

never take away, 1584. 
Responsibility an instrument 

of education, 1583. 
Rest is for the dead, 1585. 
Results, no chance in, 1587. 
Resurrection, the body of the, 

1588. 
Retreat, an honorable, 15S9. 
Revenge, feed my, 1595. 
he that studieth, 1592. 
is a wild justice. 1593. 
is the naked idol. 159(5. 
in, haste is, 1591. 
small, in words, 1594. 
Reverence begins with rever- 
ence, 1597. 
for the gods, 1598. 
is not slavery, 1599. 
Revolution a natural growth, 
1601. 
to break up a constitution 
is, 1602. 



354 DICTIONARY OF PROSE QUOTATIONS. 



Revolutions not lightly com- 
menced, 1600. 
Reward of a great service, 

1603. 
Rliythm a characteristic of all 

motion, 1601. 
Rich, thought, as good as, 1608. 
what we give up, makes us, 
1689. 
Riches, a good name better 
than, 1607. 
have wings, 1605. 
not an end of life, 1606. 
Riddle of the earth, 1609. 
Ridicule the stifler of energy, 
1610. 
the weapon most feared, 
y 1611. 
Ridiculous, step above the, 

makes, 1801. 
Right, do whatever is, 1614. 
makes might, 1615. 
more beautiful than affec- 
tion, 1613. 
rather be, than be presi- 
dent, 1612. 
with firmness in the, 205. 
Righteousness exalteth a na- 
tion, 1617. 
is at the bottom of all 
things, 1616. 
Rights, not lording over their, 
797. 
if we cannot secure all, 

1618. 
the, of another man, 1619. 
River the cosiest of friends, 

1620. 
Roguery to be found in men, 

279. 
Romance a gospel of some 

philosophy, 1621. 
Romantic, every form of hu- 
man life is, 1622. 
Rose, blossom as the, 340. 

no gathering, without 
being pricked, 1623. 
Rosemary, that's for remem- 
brance, 1566. 
Rue with a difference, 356. 
Rupert of debate, 321. 
Rural life, the love of, 1625. 
Rust, to wear out than to, 2113. 



Rust-kings lay up treasures, 



Sabbath made for man, 1627. 
Sabbath-days, quiet islands, 

1626. 
Sacrifices are necessary to save 

rights, 1628. 
Sadness, a most humorous, 

1630. 
Safety in the multitude of 

counsellors, 1631. 
Salt, flinging, upon, 1633. 

of life, disappointment the, 

366. 
something holy in, 1632. 
Saltness of time, 26. 
Sarcasm, the arrows of, 1635. 
Satan came also, 1636. 
Satiety, constant enjoyment 

breeds, 1637. 
Satire is a sort of glass, 1638. 
Satirists describe the age, 115. 
gain applause through 
fear, 1639. 
Satisfaction for every soul, 
246. 
vice stimulated by, 1640. 
Saxon, the outlandish, 304. 
Scandal is everlasting, 1719. 
Sceptic, the most unflinching, 

393. 
Schedules of my beauty, 1000. 
Schemes ruined by want of 

thought, 1642. 
Schisms, in criticising and de- 
ploring, 1643. 
Scholar, a great, is, 1644. 
the mind of the, 1645. 
School, experience keeps & 

dear, 493. 
Schoolmaster is abroad, 1646. 

not at ease in, 1647. 
Science, antidote to enthusi- 
asm, 1652. 
earliest ages, was poetry, 

1650. 
has fallen short, 1654. 
has not found a, 1648. 
its debt to imagination, 



organized knowledge, 1653. 
work of, is to, 1651. 



INDEX TO QUOTATIONS. 



355 



Scorn them who scorn us, 

1655. 
Scribbling, worst way of being 

intimate, 940. 
Scripture, how dost thou un- 
derstand, 784. 
Scrivener, a notched and cropt, 

1656. 
Sculpture, moonlight is, 1220. 
Sea, bury me in the, 1659. 

drowns humanity and 

time, 1302. 
has no appreciation o f , 

1658. 
Seclusion, deeper depths of, 

1660. 
Secret, every human creature 

is, 1663. 
preserve, wrap it in frank- 
ness, 1662. 
three may keep a, 1661. 
Seditions, way to prevent, 1664. 
Self-conceit, s e 1 f-contenipla- 

tion apt to end in, 1665. 
Self-confidence, a petty pride, 

or a realization, 1666. 
Self-consciousness, a m i r r o r 

the foundation of, 1668. 
Self-contemplation apt to end 

in, 1665. 
Self-deceit, the veiled image 

of unknown evil, 1669. 
Self-denial indispensable to a 

strong character, 1670. 
Self-government assumes that 

it is safer to, 1673. 
does not comprehend, 1674. 
Self-interest the most ingen- 
ious of agents, 1678. 
Selfishness is demonism, 1679. 
Self-love, the way to get out 

of, 1682. 
Self-made, a, man, 1671. 
Self-praise, the world's, 1684. 
Self-punishment, haired is, 

772. 
Self-reliance, want o>", 370. 
Solf-respect, corner-stone of 

all virtue, 1686. 
Self-righteousness the last idol 

rooted out, 168 i. 
Self-sacrifice of the Christian, 

1690. 



Senses, frighten me out of my, 

034. 
Sensuality is the grave of the 

soul, 1691. 
Sentiment is the sail, 834. 
Servant a dog, is thy, 392. 
Servant, world's, must prove 

that lie can serve, 1693. 
Shadow, dream itself is but a, 
403. 
of a sound, 430. 
Shadows, Avhat, we are, 1694. 
Shakespeare, the scope of, 

1695. 
Shame, where is, there is fear, 

1696. 
Ship, being in a, is, 955. 
Shipwreck, man who has suf- 
fered, 1698. 
Shif tlessness another name for 

aimlessness, 1697. 
Shoe pinches me, my own, 1933. 
want of a. the horse was 
lost, 1269. 
Sibyl, contortions of the, 927. 
Silence gives consent, 1703. 
great empire of , 1700. 
in, there is safety, 1851. 
is better than any speech, 

1704. 
made the reply to calum- 
ny, 1699. 
of a friend amounts to 

treachery, 383. 
shows that you agree, 1702. 
Silent be, that he may hear, 
1586. 
people m ore interesting 

than, 1701. 
the great, man, 1700. 
Silver not the only coin, 237, 
Simulation is a vice, 1706. 
Sin, original, of man, 1708. 

takes out a patent, 1709. 
Sincerity, attainment of, way 
of man, 1711. 
is impossible unless, 1712. 
is the way to heaven, 1711. 
pretence of it, 1712. 
private, is, 1710. 
Sinews of virtue, 375. 
Singers are merry, 1713. 
Singing is not for the law, 1713. 



356 DICTIONARY OF PROSE QUOTATIONS. 



Sins are more easily remem- 
bered, 1707. 
charity shall cover, 206. 

God may forgive, 110. 
Sky in which nature, 1716. 
Slander, enemies carry about, 
1719. 
if, be a snake, 171S. 
Slanderers, best to leave to 

public opinion, 1717. 
Slave, in giving freedom to 
the, 613. 
to his passions. 1724. 
Slavery, a slave to oneself, 
1725. 
first touch of, 1723. 
is a weed. 1720. 
is but half abolished, 616. 
natural and normal condi- 
tion, 1726. 
tolerates no freedom of, 

1721. 
where, is, there liberty 
cannot. 1727. 
Sleep, blessings on him who 
invented, 1728. 
exposition of, 1731. 
is the best cure for waking 

troubles, 1720. 
much, not required, 1730. 
resembles death, 172S. 
to mine eves, will not give, 
501. 
Sleeve in his helm, 795. 
Slip, many a. 1732. 
Sloth consumes faster than. 
1733. 
makes things difficult, 902. 
Sluggards sent to the ant, 
1734. 
sleep, plough deep while, 
361. 
Smell, rankest compound of 

villanous, 1305. 
Smile, faces that can afford to, 
1735. 
is beautiful with a tear, 
1736. 
Smoke arise, there can no 

great, 568. 
Smoking the pipe he loved, 

1737. 
Sneer, who can refute a, 1738. 



Snob, by any other name 

would, 1740. 
Snobs found in every rank, 

1739. 
Snow, pure as, 179. 
Society a place in which we in- 
terchange life, 1741. 
is u joint-^tock company, 

1743. 
is a masked ball, 1742. 
is founded on hero-wor- 
ship, 804. 
is made up of partialities, 

1744. 
men in, dupes, 1745. 
no comfort to one not, 

1746. 
returns us what we give it, 
1747. 
Soil and society, difference be- 
tween, 1747. 
Soldier, a, and af eared, 1750. 
before a captavne, 1751. 
the old, 1749. 
Solicitudes arising out of, 1753. 
Solidity, the idea of, 1754. 
Solitude is like light, 1756. 
little do men perceive 

what, is, 1755. 
needful to the imagination, 
1757. 
Song, deep things are, 1759. 
great, has been sincere 

song, 1761. 
of Percy and Douglass, 
1762. 
Song, the voice of, 1760. 

with a little nonsense, 
1763. 
Songs may exist unsung, 2017. 
Sons, Adam's, my brethren, 

1764. 
Sophisters. economists, and, 

1765. 
Sophistry and exaggeration, 

1766. 
Sophomoric, bold, way, 1767. 
Sorrow, hang. 1S2. 

over the dead is, 1770. 
sit thee down, 1775. 
the great idealixer, 1773. 
the rust of the soul, 1771. 
though, must come, 1774- 



INDEX TO QUOTATIONS. 



357 



Sorrows, every man has hi3, 
1772. 
out of the joys of other 
men, 17G9. 
Soul, an offshoot of the divine 
mind, 1778. 
every subject's, his own, 

900. 
far from human life, 1758. 
is one with its faith, 1776. 
it 's no my view o' human 
life that a man 's sent 
just to save his, 1634. 
never grows old, 1780. 
one thing of value, 1779. 
satisfaction for every, 246. 
stands between light and 

darkness, 1777. 
take thine ease, 1781. 
this is a poor mad, 1782. 
who taints his, 1836. 
Souls, great, are submissive, 
736. 
that must not be saved, 787. 
Sound, shadow of a, 430. 
Sovereigns, animosities of, are 

temporary, 1376. 
Speck of azure, a little, 111. 
Speech, aspersion upon parts 
of 78. 
has something of song, 

1784. 
loath to cast away my, 

1787. 
no, that profits, 1788. 
that leads not to action, 

1785. 
the true use of, 1786. 
Spell, never, a word wrong, 

1789. 
Spells, she works by, 311. 
Spider works unconsciously, 

1734. 
Spirit invincible against affec- 
tion, 81. 
is willing, 576. 
Spirits, good and bad, 1790. 
Spoils, to the victors belong 

the, 1791. 
Spring, delights us in the, 1792. 
Staff of life, bread is the, 167. 
Stake, following him to the, 
1163. 



Star, a, for every State, 1794. 

Stars gleam like spirits, 1793. 

State, a, for every star, 1794. 

Statecraft, security the high- 
est lesson of , 1795. 

Statesmanship, I do not de- 
preciate, 1796. 

Stocks, gambling with, 652. 

Story, cruel, runs on wheels, 
1641. 

Streets empty of people, 342. 

Structure of animals, 86. 

Studies serve for delight, 1797. 

Study of the soul, 779. 

Stupidity, against, the gods 
fight, 1798. 
is strong, 1798. 

Style gives value to thought, 
1799. 
the immortal thing in 
literature, 1800. 

Subjects are rebels from prin- 
ciple, 987. 

Sublime, step above the, 
makes, 1801. 

Submission to rightful author- 
ity, 1S02. 

Success a great temptation, 
1806. 
in, be moderate, 1805. 
secret of a man's, 1807. 
sweeter if long delaved, 

1803. 
the child of audacity, 1804. 

Suffering has its root in, 1808 

Suicide is confession, 1S09. 

Sun, moon beholds the setting, 
1816. 
rises upon the Avorld, 1815. 
which passeth through pol- 
lutions, 1811. 

Sunbeams out of cucumbers, 
291. 

Sunday the core of our civili- 
zation, 1813. 
the great liberty-day, 1812. 

Sunlight is like the breath of 
life, 1814. 

Sunne shineth, while the, 775. 

Sunshine, the monotony of, 
1216. 

Superfluity comes bv white 
hairs, 1817. 



OOb DICTIONARY OF PROSE QUOTATIONS. 



Superstition, if modern, dis- 
turb thee, 1822. 
in avoiding superstition, 

1819. 
the master of, 1820. 
the religion of feeble 
minds, 1821. 

Superstitions furnished the 
fancy, 533. 

Surfeit with too much. 427. 

Surgical operation to get a 
joke into, 972. 

Surrender, unconditional and 
immediate, 1823. 

Suspicion is often a useless 
pain, 1825. 

Suspicions that the mind 
gathers, 1821. 

Swallow, one, maketh not sum- 
mer, 1810. 

Swearing, jackanapes must 
take me up for, 1826. 

Syllables, some, are swords, 
2107. 

Sympathetic people give back 
reflected images, 1S2S. 

Sympathy, abundance of one- 
sided, 1830. 
of sorrow, 1827. 
we are governed by, 1829. 

Table-talk should be sincere, 

1832. 
Taciturnity, my prof ound, 1833. 
Tact, without/can learn noth- 
ing, 1834. 
Tale, a plain, 1838. 

that is told, 1837. 
Tale, which holdeth children 

from play, 1839. 
Tale-bearers are bad as tale- 
makers, 718. 
Talent is that which, 1840. 
Talk, always two to a, 1850. 
is only spading up the 

ground, 1844. 
loves to hear himself, 1847. 
much in society, 1843. 
of things heavenly* or 

things earthly, 1852. 
often, but never long, 267. 
themselves mad, 1849. 
to, charming to, 1841, 



Talkativeness produces disas- 
ters, 1851. 
Talked, more, about, the less 

powerful, 1284. 
Talking, he will be, 1848. 

long, begets short hearing, 

1846. 
seldom repent of, too ]ittle 

1845. 
the disease of, 1853. 
Taste cannot be controlled by 
law, 1856. 
consists upon fitness, 1855. 
good, can not supply the, 

1858. 
is the only morality, 1857, 
Tavern, a good inn or, 922. 

O miraculous, 1859. 
Taxed, people to be, by repre- 
sentatives, 1860. 
Tea, thank God for, 1861. 
j Teaching, there is no, 1862. 
I Teachings, twenty to follow 
mine own, 1863. 
Tear precious above the smile, 

1736. 
Tears, deepest sorrow without, 
1865. 
hence were those, 1S68. 
if you have, prepare to 

shed, 1887. 
men less inclined to, 1869, 
sympathizing and selfish 
"people given to, 1864. 
upon the cheeks of youth, 
1866. 
Temper, fretfulness of, 618. 
hot, leaps o'er a cold de- 
cree, 1870. 
Temper, ill, men are, as much 

given to, as women, 1869. 
Temperance requisite for hap- 
piness, 1871. 
Temptations allure dribbling 

offenders, 408. 
Temptations, find out what 

your, are, 1872. 
Tenderness, want of, proof of 

stupidity, 1873. 
Terror, first lesson that, 1874. 
Teuton blood in their veins, 

1875. 
Thanks, I am poor in, 1876. 



INDEX TO QUOTATIONS. 



359 



Theologians, haughty herd of, 

1878. 
Theology, approved professors 

of, 1878. 
Thing, an ill-favored, 1450. 
possessed is not the, 1449. 
too much of a good, 487. 
Things above, affections on, 22. 
new, are more admired, 

1285. 
salutary, should not be 
crammed, 1556. 
Thinker, arrival of *a, in the 
world, 1879. 
God lets loose a, 1880. 
nearer to the source of 
thought, 1888. 
Thinkers, shallow and ab- 
struse, 1881. 
Thoreau, would have refused 

to notice, 1882. 
Thorns, crackling of, 1020. 
Thought is parent of the deed, 
1886. 
leads to resignation, 1579. 
material of, reacts upon 

thought, 1891. 
no, can be just which, 1885. 
of Plato becomes a, 1899. 
one, includes all thought, 

1887. 
runs before her actions, 

1893. 
style gives value to, 1799. 
the process by which 

human ends are, 1894. 
the property of him who 
can, 1889. 
Thoughts, accompanied with 
noble, 240. 
are dependent upon lan- 
guage, 1892. 
ill, not roll them under 

tongue, 1890. 
men's, are according to in- 
clination, 890. 
Throat, put a knife to thy, 53. 
Thunder, they steal my, 1895. 
Tide, he went out with the, 

1896. 
Time brings forth and devours, 
1898. 
do not squander, 1900. 



Time is money, 1897. 

leaves its shadow, 1901. 

restores all things, 477. 

the anodyne, 1904. 

the consoler, 1904. 

the life of the soul, 1902. 

the shadow on the dial, 

1902. 
the true value of, 1496. 
whirligig of, 1903. 
Titles, most enviable of all, 

821. 
Toad, if you know your, 1905. 
To-day is worth two to-mor- 

roAvs, 1906. 
Toil is the sire of fame, 1907. 
Toleration for Avhat we do not 
believe, 1908. 
is an insolent term, 1909. 
Tomb, hell both sides of the, 

792. 
To-morrow,boast not of, 150. 
never leave till, 1486. 
that is in to-day, 1910. 
Tones, merry in odd, 112. 
Tongue, a sparing, 1912. 

keep a guard on your, 1911. 
words without a,' 430. 
Tools, jesting with edge, 1913. 
Trade is a social act, 1914. 
Tradition, effigies and splen- 
dors of, 1915. 
Traitor, an arrant, 1917. 
Tranquillity is the summum 
bonum of old age, 1312. 
of mind depends, 1918. 
Translations, something lost 

in all, 1919. 
Translator, like his author, 

1920. 
Travel is a part of education, 
1922. 
is a part of experience, 
1922. 
Traveller, every, has a homo, 

1923. 
Travellers must be content, 

1924. 
Travelling, good to teach a 
man to". 951. 
is no fool's errand, 1921. 
Treachery, silence of a friend 
amounts to, SSo, 



360 DICTIONAJEY 



OF PROSE QUOTATIONS. 



Treason, fellowship in, 1925. 
if this he, make the most. 

1926. 
they cannot commit, 2G9. 
Tree of liberty. 1043. 

when we plant a. 1928. 
Trees assume an air of an- 
guish, 1929. 
Tribunals composed of Jaco- 
bins, 954. 
Tribute, not one cent for. 1930. 
Trick is a mean thing, 1931. 
when in doubt, win the. 

399 
worth two of that, 1932. 
Tricks are the practice of 

fools, 587. 
Trifles, busy themselves about 
ridiculous, 1933. 
must not stand upon. 1934 
Trouble, wavs in which 

pie take, 1935. 
Troubles which have come up- 
on us, 1936. 
Trust men, they will be true, 
254. 
that man in nothing, 258. 
Truth always found where 
honestly sought, 1946. 
as harsh as. 7" 
childhood often holds a, 

1951. 
illuminates, 1939. 
imxjossible to be soiled bv, 

1950. 
is always present, 1943. 
is the strongest argument, 
63. 

ai, is divine, 1949. 
nothing is bo gran $,1947 
of importance only ae 
rejoices to come to the 

light, 1944. 
that fired the soul of Pin- 
dar, 1899. 
the genuine essence of, 

1941. 
the triumphs of, 1942. 
the vantage-ground or 
the, which makes free, 

1938. 
to love, for truth's sake. 
1948. 



Tyranny, bad laws the worst 

":. -r^-ins v.-"_-rr-r '.:-,.'-■■ -^i. .;.. 

no, w despotic as that of 

public opinion, 1953. 
will above law is, and des- 
I9GS 
eign is called a. 

kings, from po_ 
1966. 

n to, is obedience, 
1957. 

Ugliness, uglv for the sake o% 

Ultramontane policy, object 
of, I960. 
to the, it is incredible, 
1961. 

Unbelief consists in, 1962. 

rrtainfy, man wanders 

about in, 1963. 
haritable, how. must it be, 

Tncle let yc ir , kick his heels, 

Understanding, acuteness and 
subtlety of, 1965. 
- obliged to find an, 
1906. 
Jngodliness, wrath of God 

against, 1967. 
Union, dishonored fragments 
: a once glorious, 1972 
glorious, shall not perish, 
1968. 

p to the music of 
the. 1115. 
liberty and, now and, 

I ". 
of the States is indisso- 
luble, 1969. 
our Federal, 1970. 
United States of America, 
must keep an eye on, 

Universe, better ordering of 
17. 
from the origin of the, 

ught of God, 1975. 



rsi 



of book - 



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- 
fruited attachment., an, 

F the useful, 1980. 

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Yaior, better part of. is ds- 

- 
is Or:: - . . 

lies benreen cowardice 

and rashnes? EMI 
truest, to dare to 

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Want makes strife. 771. 

of care does damage. 181. 
Wants, he who has" fewest. 

2021. 
War. calculations upset in. 
17S. 
educates the senses. 2025. 
never leaves. 2022. 
the great acts of. 2020. 
the whole art of, 2029. 
will never yield. 2023. 
Warrior. Autumn comes like 

a. 106. 
Wars, they shall have. 2027. 
Washington. America has fur- 
nished a. 31. 
Waste makes want. 771. 
Watches, dictionaries are like. 

355. 
Way. best, of doing every- 
thing. 1715. 
Weak, concessions of the. 555. 
Weakest goes to the wall. 

515. 
Weakness, two kinds of. 2090. 
Wealth is health. " 
means liberty. 2033. 
requires the whole heart 

and. 2032. 
safe use of. without rea- 
son. 2035. 
the least gift that God has 
bestowed. 2034. 
Wealthy, if you would be. 2031. 
Wear out. better to. than to 

rust out. 2113. 
Weather, tedious to talk of the. 

2036. 
Wedding in the church. 1162. 

is destiny. 346. 
Weeds have hateful moral 

qualities. 2037. 
Welcome, and the hostess sav. 

2038. 
Werling. a yong man's. 310. 
Westminster Abbey, shape- 
less ruins. 1091. 
Whatever is worth doing is. 

1883. 
Wheat, reasons are as two 

grains of. 194. 
Wheel of fortune, revolution 
of. 1722. 



Wicked are alwavs ungrateful. 
913. 
cause I's. I is. 2041. 
Wickedness, the disgrace of, 

2040. 
Widders are 'ceptions to ev'rv 

rule, 2042. 
Wife, a constellation of vir- 
tues, 2144. 
use circumspection in 

choosing thy. Ill 
with nine small children, 
1163. 
Will, commands its own ac- 
tions. 1 
is the rudder. 834. 
nothing more prt-cious to a 

nian, 204E 
to live by one man's. 2(46. 
Wind. God tempers the. 2048. 

the east. 2047. 
Winds are on the side of the 

ablest navigators. 1262. 
Wine. good, i? . a 2050. 

good, needs no bush. 2 
invisible spirit of. 2052. 
old. to drink. 23. 
suecoreth mankind. 2049. 
T\ inter, a thoroughlv honest 
fellow. 2054." 
hard, lived through. 2053. 
Wisdom better than rul 
2059. 
c a n n ot be exaggerated, 

2055. 
God give them. 2060. 
is justified, i 
more helpful than. 79S. 
the only jewel which. 2057. 
Wise, never thinks never can 
be. 2065. 
spirits of the. 235. 
Wit, lmpless. has his lab: 

has its place in debate, 2065. 
is more necessarv than 

beauty. 2070. 
larded with malice. 1145. 
no. will bear repetition, 

2069. 
poor enough to be a. 5S6. 
shines at the expense of, 

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World, is the same every- 
where, 2118. 
man must learn to despise 

it, 2119. 
not made for the prosper- 
ous, 2120. 
one half of, must sweat, 

905. 
Puritans gave action to 

the, 8. 
wagge, let the, 921. 
will little note, 260. 
World's admiration of its own 

charities, 1684. 
"Worry is rust upon the blade, 

2122. 
Worship the source of intel- 
lect, 2124. 
Worships, man always, some- 
thing, 2123. 
Wounds, bind up the nation's, 

205. 
Writers better be sent to the 
spider, 1734. 
influence of , on public 
mind, 101. 
Writing makes an exact man, 

253. 
Wrong, a remedy for every, 
246. 
better to suffer, than to do, 
2125. 

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Wrongs are often forgiven, 
263. 

Xanthippe, Socrates being- 
asked how he could live 
with, 2126. 

Years of man, provision for 

the last, 592. 
Youth a continual intoxica- 
tion, 2128. 
but once, 2129. 
Youth, feeling of eternity in, 
2127. 
if, be a defect, 2130. 
salt of our, 2131. 

Zeal, attended with knowl- 
edge, 2138. 

becomes the greatest 
scourge of humanity, 
2137. 

hopes of, not groundless, 
2135. 

if, Avere true and genuine, 
2132. 

is called, 2136. 

is either pride or, 2133. 

men, deceive themselves, 
than in, 2134. 
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